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World marks Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27
January 26, 2013 - 13:53 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The UN General Assembly designated January 27- the
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau - as International
Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, every
member state of the UN has an obligation to honor the victims of the
Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future
genocides.
The calculated killing of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands
of others as Nazi Germany spread across Europe, remains a potent
catalyst for debate sixty-eight years after the end of the Second
World War.
As a day of remembrance, January 27 is tied to the arrival in 1945 of
Soviet troops at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where trainloads of
men, women and children had been gassed to death over the course of
the war.
Eighteen governments have legislated January 27 as an annual Holocaust
Memorial Day.
January 26, 2013 - 13:53 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The UN General Assembly designated January 27- the
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau - as International
Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, every
member state of the UN has an obligation to honor the victims of the
Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future
genocides.
The calculated killing of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands
of others as Nazi Germany spread across Europe, remains a potent
catalyst for debate sixty-eight years after the end of the Second
World War.
As a day of remembrance, January 27 is tied to the arrival in 1945 of
Soviet troops at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where trainloads of
men, women and children had been gassed to death over the course of
the war.
Eighteen governments have legislated January 27 as an annual Holocaust
Memorial Day.