International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27, 1945 - Soviet troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
On this day in 1945 Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and nearby Birkenau in Poland, freeing 7600 prisoners abandoned there. 1.1 million people, about 90 percent of them were Jews, from almost every country in Europe were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Nazi regime.
On January 27, 2005 Holocaust survivors, former Red Army soldiers, leaders of more than 40 countries, and other people gathered in Oświęcim, Poland for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This day of remembrance would prompt the United Nations on November 1st of 2005 to pass a resolution creating International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"There can be no reversing the unique tragedy of the Holocaust. It must be remembered, with shame and horror, for as long as human memory continues. Only by remembering can we pay fitting tribute to the victims. Millions of innocent Jews and members of other minorities were murdered in the most barbarous ways imaginable. We must never forget those men, women and children, or their agony."
-- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, January 27, 2006
Quote for ToDay:
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Dorothy Nevill
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