International Holocaust
Remembrance Day
January 27

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day on January 27 commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred prior to and during the Second World War. January 27 was chosen as the commemorative date because it was on this date that the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived racial and biological inferiority: Roma (Gypsies), people with disabilities, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

Today, despite the voluminous documentation of the Holocaust, its methods, and its victims, there are people who would have us believe that the Holocaust never happened. The following video is about one man who could testify from personal experience to the contrary.

Reference: HOLOCAUSTENCYCLOPEDIA
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust

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