International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust

Holocaust Memorial Day is observed on January 27 every year. It is a memorial day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one-third of the Jewish people, as well as countless members of other minorities, by Nazi Germany. The Holocaust was said to be an attempt to implement their “final solution” to the Jewish question. The Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny German Jews human and civil rights. They built their case on centuries of antisemitism.

The day commemorates the Nazi regime and its contemporaries’ murder of about six million Jews, as well as millions of others. On November 1, 2005, the U.N. General Assembly passed Resolution 60/7. The proposal came after a special session pretty early that year, on January 24, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps and thus the final act of the Holocaust. Click…