International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust- January 27th

January 29, 2024

January 27^th is a global day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust.
In November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as an “International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust”(Resolution 60/7).
It reaffirmed that “the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one-third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism, and prejudice.”
The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.
- Some 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz, the vast majority (about 90%) of them Jews.
- Auschwitz was just one of many sites of persecution and mass murder in Europe established by Nazi Germany.