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77WABC is taking part in remembering the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust and those who have been subject to antisemitism.
Today is The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, an international memorial day on January 27th that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless other minority members between 1933 and 1945 by Nazi Germany. The 27th of January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005. The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust.
