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A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration.
The first Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel took place on December 28, 1949, following a decision of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that an annual memorial should take place on the Tenth of Tevet, a traditional day of mourning and fasting in the Hebrew calendar.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one-third of the Jewish people along with countless numbers of individuals of other minority groups, by ...
The United Nations declared January 27 as the International Holocaust Memorial Day in 2005. Observed annually, it marks the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 and remembers the six million Jews who ...
Holocaust Memorial Day is a moment to remember, to reflect on the present, and to contemplate the future of universal human rights.. However, the immediate focus is always, and rightly, on the ...
Holocaust survivors, Cabinet ministers, MPs and faith leaders attended a Holocaust Memorial Day event in Westminster on Wednesday evening. Holocaust events ‘more important than ever’ in face ...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the lives of the 6 million Jews killed in Nazi Germany. Holocaust survivors and politicians warned about the resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust ...
A National Theatre Live recording was screened in over 380 [5] cinemas on 27 January (Holocaust Memorial Day), 2022 and topped that night's UK and Ireland box office. [6] The play's second preview performance had also taken place on Holocaust Memorial Day, in 2020, when each audience member was given a memorial candle as they left the theatre. [7]