International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On January 27, the whole world celebrates the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. No one is guilty of belonging to a particular nation or race. But the German Nazis thought otherwise. From 1933 to 1945, violence against Jews, Gypsies and those population groups (disabled, mentally ill) that the Führer recognized as “inferior” continued throughout Europe.

Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Mauthausen, Sobibor, Dachau, Salaspils, Lviv and Warsaw, Domaniv ghettos…

6 million Jews, about a quarter of Gypsies, 10 percent of Poles, 3 million Soviet prisoners of war, including Ukrainians, thousands of sick people were killed.

Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005. The Day of Remembrance was designated on January 27, because on this day in 1945, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the prisoners of the first and largest concentration camp, Auschwitz.

This day once again reminds all people of the world: NO to anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of violence against any group of people.