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Days of Remembrance

Jan 26, 2018

The international memorial day on 27 January, designated by the United Nations General Assembly, is held in order to commemorate the victims of the Shoah. On 27 January 1945, the Allied Forces liberated Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration and death camp, and its surviving prisoners. Beyond the prison gate and the sign bearing the slogan “Arbeit […]

The international memorial day on 27 January, designated by the United Nations General Assembly, is held in order to commemorate the victims of the Shoah. On 27 January 1945, the Allied Forces liberated Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration and death camp, and its surviving prisoners. Beyond the prison gate and the sign bearing the slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (Work sets you free), the world witnessed the horror of what had taken place there and came to the know the scale of the mass extermination which had caused the death of six million people. 73 years after the end of the Shoah, in various parts of Europe and the world, every year commemorative meetings, ceremonies, initiatives and moments of narration of events by the survivors are promoted, especially in schools, in order to “never forget ” one of the most terrible examples of racial hatred and so that such atrocities will never be repeated anywhere on the planet.

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