A conference on anti-semitism in Berlin has called for renewed and sustained efforts to fight the problem.
"Many people who, like me, lived through the Nazi era, had wished and hoped that this horrible time of war and genocide, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism no longer had a place in the world", said German president Johannes Rau opening the conference.
He said he regretted that a such meeting had to be held and that anti-Semitism had not been consigned to history.
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