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Author: Joanna Kowalewska | Publish date: 27 January 2023

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

27 January 2023, Author: Joanna Kowalewska

27 January is World Holocaust Remembrance Day. Date was designated on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1945 by the Red Army.

1 November 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Day Holocaust Remembrance to Commemorate the Victims of Origin Jewish murdered during World War II by the Nazis Germany. The date is not accidental, because on January 27, 1945, the troops of the Army Red liberated prisoners of the German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau - the place of extermination of at least a million Jews from Hungary, Polish, France, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Greece and other countries, and about a hundred twenty thousand other prisoners (Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others). In On this day, events and initiatives take place all over the world commemorative.