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OpEd: Jan. 27 is a day set aside to remember the unique evil of the Holocaust, of the attempt by the Nazis and their allies to eradicate the Jewish people, and their murder of six million Jews.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between ...
In 2005, the United Nations instituted an international observance, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many observances fall on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, while other countries selected separate dates, often to mark anniversaries of national events during the Holocaust.
High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk made the comments in a statement issued ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which he condemned rising antisemitism around the world ...
On 27 January 2005, the United Nations General Assembly held a special session in remembrance of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on the same day of 1945. . This is the first time that the international organization made a remembrance of victims of the Holocaust as a way to prevent future genocid
Pope Francis recalled the extermination of millions of Jews in calling Wednesday for the upcoming Holocaust Day of Remembrance to reaffirm that war can never be justified and only benefits weapons ...
'Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day'), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and ...
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Polish death camp where more than 1.1 million people were slaughtered by the ...