But their memory is still alive.

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Speaking to the Today's programme's John Humphrys, Henia Bryer described how she has lived with the memory of such horrors and how important is it to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive.

BBC: Holocaust terror 'should never be forgotten'

"As the last witnesses to the horrors of World War II leave us, it is vital, it is imperative, to keep alive the memory and example of individuals like Raoul Wallenberg, " she said, describing Mr Wallenberg as a man of "moral courage and heroic example".

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The donation of the UMG archive to the Library of Congress is a major gift to the nation that will help maintain the inter-generational connection that is essential to keeping alive, in our collective national memory, the music and sound recordings meaningful to past generations.

ENGADGET: Library of Congress receives 200,000 vintage master recordings from Universal, will stream them online

Unlike Route 66, which faded into memory and legend some 30 years ago, the Alaska of the imagination is still alive, and flourishing.

BBC: Journey into the Alaskan wild

That difference is "unexpected but not inexplicable, " says Zaven Khachaturian, president of Keep Memory Alive in Las Vegas and former head of Alzheimer's research at the National Institutes of Health.

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