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On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where the Nazis killed 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, during World War II. In total, the Nazi regime killed around six million Jews in Europe.
The day of the liberation of the concentration camp in Germany has been celebrated as Holocaust Remembrance Day since 1996 and was declared an international day of remembrance by the United Nations in 2005.
Commemorations take place on this day in many parts of the world.
The Auschwitz Museum in Poland announced that the 79th anniversary of the memorial will be marked with drawings by the death camp’s inmates, symbolizing the people behind the entire human tragedy.
The museum’s director, Piotrs Civinskis, said that too many people today associate Auschwitz with its surroundings – barbed wire, barracks and watchtowers – but in reality the real story is one of human tragedies.
About 20 camp survivors take part in the memorial event in Auschwitz.
In Germany, too, where the flags on institutional buildings were lowered to half-mast on Saturday, various events are taking place to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
German Interior Minister Nancy Feser will give a speech at a memorial service at the former Ravensbrück concentration camp in eastern Germany, where women were imprisoned.
Before the commemorations, the Germany-based Central Council of Jews called for the Holocaust not to be equated with other genocides.
Israel, home to about half of the world’s Holocaust survivors, has been scarred by the brutal attack by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on October 7, to which Israel has been responding with a massive offensive for several months.
In connection with the war in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, there is a rise in anti-Semitism in many parts of the world.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a determined fight against anti-Semitism and racism.
“’Never again’ is commonplace,” said Scholz as he dedicated his weekly video address to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. “27. January calls on us to remain visible and heard, against anti-Semitism, against racism, against misanthropy and for our democracy,” he said.
In his memorial message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that every generation should know the truth about the tragedy of the Holocaust and emphasized that “human life must always remain the highest value for all countries of the world.”
Zelensky also remembered those who heroically preserved humanity and saved the lives of others, not knowing whether good would triumph over evil.
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