#International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust

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Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust. Holocaust Memorial Ceremony 2024.

The observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust 2024. It will be held on 26 January 2024 in the United Nations General Assembly Hall, under the theme "Recognizing the Extraordinary Courage of Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust".

Survivors of the Holocaust will share their testimonies along with invited speakers who include the United Nations Secretary-General; the President of the 78th session of the General Assembly (through recorded message); the Permanent Representative of Israel and a representative of the Permanent Mission of the United States to the United Nations. Ms. Melissa Fleming, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications will host the #ceremony.

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9 Women Artists lost during the Holocaust #RemembranceDay

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The Best News of Last Week 🐧

1. ‘Robin Hood’ energy strikers give free power to French schools, hospitals, low-income homes

Amid national strikes in the energy sector, some workers in France have found a novel way to protest. On Thursday, "Robin Hood" operations – unauthorised by the government – provided free gas and electricity to schools, universities, and low-income households throughout the country.

Among the facilities provided free energy were public sports facilities, daycare centers, public libraries, some small businesses and homes that had been cut off from power. 

2. UK scientists discover method to reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emissions by 90%

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed an innovative method for existing furnaces that could reduce steelmaking’s CO2 emission by nearly 90%.

The iron and steel industry is a major cause of greenhouse gasses, accounting for 9% of global emissions. That’s because of the inherent carbon-intensive nature of steel production in blast furnaces, which currently represent the most-widely used practice.

3. Watch this cargo ship fly a giant kite to save fuel and cut emissions

The 2,700-square-foot parafoil is helping to tow the cargo ship and lessen the workload of the massive diesel engines — reducing the ship’s use of dirty fuel.

4. Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images

A newly discovered emperor penguin colony has been seen, using satellite images of one the most remote and inaccessible regions of Antarctica.

The colony, home to about 500 birds, makes a total of 66 known emperor penguin colonies around the coastline of Antarctica, half of which were discovered by space satellites. Emperor penguins are the only penguins that breed on sea ice, rather than land, and are located in areas that are very difficult to study because they are remote, inaccessible and can experience temperatures as low as −60C

Kowalski, analysis!

5. Dungeons & Dragons Scraps Plans to Update Its Open Game License

Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Dungeons & Dragons, announced yesterday that it will no longer be pursuing deauthorization of the Open Gaming License 1.0a. The deauthorization of the OGL 1.0a was a huge sticking point for fans and third-party publishers who made a living using a license that was granted nearly two decades ago.

6. Turning problem sea algae into a replacement for plastic

Excessive outbreaks of seaweed and microalgae are clogging up waters from the Caribbean to the Baltic. Now both are being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products.

7. German parliament officially commemorates LGBTQ victims of Nazi regime for first time.

The German parliament for the first time on Friday focused its annual Holocaust memorial commemorations on people persecuted and killed over their sexual or gender identity during World War II. Campaigners in Germany have worked for decades to establish an official ceremony to commemorate the LGBTQ victims persecuted under the Nazi regime.

“Today’s hour of remembrances focuses on a group of victims which had to fight for a long time to achieve recognition: people who were persecuted by the National Socialists because of their sexual orientation or their gender identity,” Baerbel Bas, president of the Bundestag lower house, said while opening a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation.

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August 6th is the day of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony, which commemorates the victims of the atomic bombing and offers prayers for peace. While the actual military use of atomic bombs was witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the scope of the victims extends beyond these cities, encompassing nuclear test sites like New Mexico and the Philippines. Research indicates that the casualties resulting from atomic bomb drops exceed 250,000 people, and the fatalities related to U.S. testing surpass 200,000 people. In the context of World War II, various nations engaged in inhumane acts. The Holocaust in Germany, the Nanking Massacre in Japan, the atomic bombings in the United States... Both Axis and Allied powers have been held accountable for war crimes; no nation is exempt. So, who were the victims of these wars? Jewish individuals, women and girls of Nanking, ordinary citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... In every conflict, the greatest impact is felt by civilians, particularly those who are socially vulnerable. Are you familiar with the poem “Ningen wo Kaese” (to Poems of the Bomb) by Mitsuyoshi Toge, who was an actual survivor of the August 6th bombing? Always, it is the civilian population, not the decision-makers of war, who suffer the most. Today, Japan stands as a democratic nation. Unlike during World War II, we have the capacity to raise voices against war. To avoid repeating past mistakes, shouldn’t we seek accountability and express our opposition to war? We stand against the military use of atomic bombs and against participation in war.

-- "Hibakusha, Victims of Nuclear Tests, Second Generation A-Bomb Survivors, and the International Convention on Nuclear Weapons" from Voice Up Japan, 6 Aug 2023

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27th January 2023 // Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel commemorated the International Day of Remembrance for Holocaust Victims at a memorial ceremony in Stockholm. Victoria has attended many Holocaust remembrance events on behalf of Sweden, and was a representative at the 75th anniversary events in Poland in 2020

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcTDXPWDisM

There’s something extra special about children at Holocaust memorial events. As the speaker at the top of this video indicates (very politely -- he is a diplomat, after all), this large group of Jewish children singing together is exactly the opposite of what the Nazis wanted. 

There is a difference between International Holocaust Memorial Day (January 26) and Yom HaShoah (a week after Pesach) that is a little hard to articulate, but I’ve never let that sort of thing stop me before, and I don’t intend to let it stop me now.  HMD events tend to be very respectful, but a bit . . . I don’t know, distant?  HMD is the world’s memorial day; it’s not really a day for the Jews.  Some HMD events make this abundantly clear by framing things around the idea that “genocide” in general is A Bad Thing, often giving examples of genocides that are either currently happening or that happened within the past forty years.  In fact, I’ve been to some HMD events that barely acknowledged the Holocaust at all, just sort of lighting a few candles and suffering a Jew or two to talk, with the audience clearly being very Tolerant™ and kind of wishing that this Jew would shut up about the Holocaust so they could all get back to remembering the Rwandan genocide for Holocaust Memorial Day.

But Yom HaShoah . . . that’s the Jewish day.  It’s partly a sad and solemn day, and you will often hear someone singing the El Malei Rachamim.  But Yom HaShoah takes place right after Pesach to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.  We’re not just mourning the Six Million on Yom HaShoah -- we’re also celebrating our resistance fighters, and our survival.  In one breath, we mourn the victims of the Nazis, and in the next, we offer those same Nazis our proudest, most upright middle finger.  Yom HaShoah is sad, but it’s also proud and angry.  And what better way to say “Never Again” than to have over a hundred little Jewish kids stand up straight and sing it out?

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International Holocaust Day

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. The date – January 27 – recalls the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the final year of World War II, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. We…

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International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the #Holocaust #HolocaustRemebranceDay #HolocaustMemorialDay #HolocaustMemorial #HolocaustIsNotAMyth 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 murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities between 1933 and 1945 by Nazi Germany, an attempt to implement their "final solution" to the Jewish question. 27 January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. The day remembers the killing of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population, and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.[1][2] It was designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005.[3] The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust.[4][5][6][7] Many countries have instituted their own Holocaust memorial days. Many, such as the UK's Holocaust Memorial Day, also fall on 27 January, while others, such as Israel's Yom HaShoah, are observed at other times of the year. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5o3kmIJwk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Holidays 1.27

Holidays

Big Snow Day

Birth of Uncanny Conjectures Day

Cavadee (Mauritius)

Ceasefire Day (Vietnam War; 1973)

Day of Fatherland Defenders (Turkmenistan)

Day of the Lifting of the Siege of Leningrad (Russia)

Discovery Day (Antarctica)

e-Day

Everyones Unbirthday

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc Day

Family Literacy Day (Canada)

Fats Domino Day

Festival of Root Vibrations

Flag Day (Indonesia)

International Outer Space Day

Ka Moloka'i Makahiki (Molokai, Hawaii)

Kids & Vaccines Day (Canada)

Let There Be Light Day

Liberation of the Remaining Inmates of Auschwitz  (a.k.a. ... 

Auschwitz Day of Holocaust and Genocide Remembrance (Denmark)

Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism (Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus; Germany)

Day for Holocaust Remembrance and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity (Spain)

Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism

Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity (Croatia)

Day of the Tragedy and Heroism of the Jews (Azerbaijan)

Dzien Pamieci Ofiar Nazizmu (The Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism; Poland)

Holocaust Memorial Day (Luxembourg, Norway, UK, Ukraine)

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Estonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden)

Holocaust Remembrance Day and the "Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jews and of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity" (Bulgaria)

Il Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day; Italy)

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (Europe)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (UN)

Memorial Day (Italy)

Memorial Day against Violence and Racism in Memory on the Victims of National Socialism (Austria)

Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism (Germany)

National Day of Commemorating he Holocaust (Romania)

National Holocaust Memorial Day (Greece, UK)

大屠殺陣亡將士紀念日 (Dà túshā zhènwáng jiàngshì jìniàn rì; Taiwan)

Lightbulb Day

Listen to Classical Music During Lunch Day

Mad Tea Party Day

Memorial Day of Purges (Finland)

Mézéréon Day (French Republic)

Mozart Day

National Activity Professionals Day

National Boat Day (Australia)

National Costello Syndrome Awareness Day

National Kazoo Day

National Geographic Day

National Toilet Day (a.k.a. Thomas Crapper Day)

127 Day (South Korea)

Parent Mental Health Day (UK)

Perfect Fool Day

Public Employment Service Worker’s Day (Poland)

Punch the Clock Day

Rabbit Hole Day

Spirituality Day (Monaco)

Thomas Crapper Day

Vietnam Peace Day (Vietnam)

Water Conservation Day

World Breast Pumping Day

World Day WITHOUT Internet (Russia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brussels Lace Day

International Port Wine Day

National Chocolate Cake Day

4th & Last Saturday in January

Great Fruitcake Toss (Manitou Springs, Colorado) [Last Saturday]

KidFilm Festival begins [Last Saturday]

National Seed Swap Day [Last Saturday]

Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day [4th Saturday]

Winter Brew Fest (Denver, Colorado) [Last Saturday]

Yay Day (Sam & Cat TV Show) [Last Saturday]

Independence & Related Days

Aysellant (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Greece (Declared; 1822)

Kingdom of Liahonia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning January 27, 2024

Bayou King Cake Festival (Thibodaux, Louisiana)

Carnival of Venice (Venice, Italy) [thru 13]

Carnival of Acireale (Acireale, Italy) [thru 2.13]

The Chocolate Expo (Wilmington, Massachusetts) [thru 1.28]

Cordova Iceworm Festival (Cordova, Alaska) [thru 2.3]

Hoggetowne Medieval Faire (Gainesville, Florida) [thru 1.28]

Kumquat Festival (Date City, Florida)

Lemon Ball (Springfield, Pennsylvania)

Lollapalooza (Mumbai, India) [thru 1.28]

Malta Whisky Festival (Attard, Malta)

Miami Brickell Art Festival (Miami, Florida) [thru 1.28]

New York Craft Brewers Festival (Albany, New York)

One Love Festival New Zealand (Tauranga, New Zealand) [thru 1.28]

Port St. Lucie Seafood Festival (Port St. Lucie, Florida) [thru 1.28]

Sunshine State Steak Cook-Off (Ave Maria, Florida)

Winterfest (Amana Colonies, Iowa)

Feast Days

Angela Merici (Christian; Virgin)

Arkhip Kuindzhi (Artology)

Arlene the Aardvark (Muppetism)

Свети Сава (St. Sava’s Day a.k.a. Spirituality Day; Serbia)

Chrysostom (Christian; Saint)

Day of Ishtar (Assyrian/Babylonian Goddess of Love; Everyday Wicca)

Day of the Dioscuri (Pagan)

Dévote’s Day (a.k.a. Devota; Christian; Saint) [Monaco]

Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló (Christian; Saint)

Feast Day of Thoth, the Magician’s Magician (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Feast of Castor and Pollux (Ancient Rome)

Feast of the Translation of the Relics of Saint John Chrysostom (Christian)

Haroun-al-Raschid (Positivist; Saint)

Hendrick Avercamp (Artology)

Iroquois Mid-Winter Ceremony (Native American)

Jacques Hnizdovsky (Artology)

John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)

John Collier (Artology)

Julian of Le Mans (Christian; Saint)

Llama Day (Pastafarian)

Lewis Carrol (Humanism; Writerism)

Lydia, Dorcas and Phoebe, Helpers of the Apostles (Lutheran)

Marius (Christian; Saint)

Michael Jackson Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Michiel van Musscher (Artology)

Mordecai Richler (Writerism)

Nino, Enlightener of Georgia (Christian; Saint)

Paul Joseph Nardini (Christian; Blessed)

Samaleswari Temple Inauguration (Odisha, India)

Samuel Palmer (Artology)

Sarkis the Warrior (Armenian Church)

Sava (Serbia)

Seison Maeda (Artology)

Vitalian, pope (Christian; Saint)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Humanism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [5 of 53]

Premieres

Before Sunrise (Film; 1995)

Boris Godunov, by Modest Mussorgsky (Opera; 1874)

The Castle, Franz Kafka (Novel; 1926)

The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke (Novel; 1956)

Customers Wanted (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

The Drowned World, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1962)

Elementary, My Dear [#2] (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)

The Fighting 69th (Film; 1940)

The Flying Sorceress (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1956)

The Grey (Film; 2012)

Heartbreak Hotel, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1956)

How Green Is My Spinach (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1950)

Instant Karma, written and recorded by John Lennon (Song; 1970)

Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (WB Animated Film; 2015)

Last Tango in Paris (Film; 1973)

Laverne & Shirley (TV Series; 1976)

The Man, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2020)

Man on a Ledge (Film; 2012)

Mississippi Burning (Film; 1989)

Moondance, by Van Morrison (Album; 1970)

Nanny McPhee (Film; 2006)

Nightwing and Robin (WB Animated Film; 2015)

One For the Money (Film; 2012)

One Gun Gary in Nick of Time (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

Operation Paciific (Film; 1951)

Pettin’ in the Park (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)

Piano Sonata in B Minor, by Franz Liszt (Piano Sonata; 1857)

Resident Alien (TV Series; 2021)

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Film; 2017)

The Seeds of Time, by John Wyndham (Short Stories; 1956)

Shōgun, by James Clavell (Novel; 1975)

Shrinking (TV Series; 2023)

Silkwood (Film; 1984)

Soft Ball Game (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

The Subterraneans, by Jack Kerouac (Novel; 1958)

Tom-ic Energy (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)

The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Novel; 1898)

Wide Open Spaces, by The Dixie Chicks (Album; 1998)

Today’s Name Days

Angela, Julian (Austria)

Anđela, Anđelka, Julijan (Croatia)

Ingrid (Czech Republic)

Chrysostomus (Denmark)

Vilja, Vilje (Estonia)

Viljo (Finland)

Angèle (France)

Alrun, Angela, Gerd (Germany)

Chrysostomos (Greece)

Angelika (Hungary)

Angela, Elvira (Italy)

Ildze, Ilze, Izolde (Latvia)

Ilona, Jogundas, Jogundė, Natalis, Vytenis (Lithuania)

Gaute, Gry, Gurli (Norway)

Angelika, Ilona, Jan Chryzostom, Julian, Przybysław (Poland)

Ioan (Romania)

Nina (Russia)

Bohuš (Slovakia)

Ángela (Spain)

Göta, Göte (Sweden)

Buck, Buckley, Floyd, Keith, Lloyd, Logan (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 27 of 2024; 339 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 4 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 17 (Geng-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 17 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 16 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 27 White; Sixday [27 of 30]

Julian: 14 January 2024

Moon: 96%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 27 Moses (1st Month) [Haroun-al-Raschid)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 38 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 6 of 28)

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Remember the atrocities of the Holocaust, support survivors and educate future generations to ensure it never happens again.

This Saturday Jan. 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day, an internationally recognized opportunity to remember the atrocities of the Holocaust, support survivors and educate future generations to ensure it never happens again. In honour of the day, City Hall and Springer Market Square will be illuminated in yellow that night.

The Kingston Jewish Council encourages community members to tune into the livestream of the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration event, which takes place at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 26. It will feature remarks from survivors, Jewish community leaders and diplomatic representatives.

Event and livestream details are here:

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Today is International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

Aujourd'hui, c'est la Journée internationale de commémoration à la mémoire des victimes de l'Holocauste.

اليوم هو اليوم الدولي لإحياء ذكرى ضحايا المحرقة.

Heute ist Internationaler Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Holocaust.

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United Nations heritage body UNESCO announced on Thursday evening that six ex-Yugoslav republics agreed to renovate Block 17 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, a former shared exhibition space which has stood empty for many years because the six countries could not agree how the events of the Holocaust in Yugoslavia should be represented.

The deal was made after 14 years of negotiations and UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay said that it “fills a void, an absence of memory at the very site where these horrors unfolded”.

“It shows our joint commitment to learning from the past and healing the wounds of history, which transcends borders and generations,” Azoulay said at a ceremony at UNESCO headquarters in Paris to announce the agreement, according to a press release.

Around 20,000 people from Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, most of them Jews, but also Roma.

In the mid-1960s, a Yugoslav national exhibition was opened in Block 17 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim. The exhibition was last updated at the end of 1980s, just before the violent break-up of Yugoslavia.

During and after Yugoslavia’s collapse, memorialisation of World War II events became a contentious issue between its successor republics, who often interpreted history differently for contemporary political purposes. This meant there was no further cooperation over the Auschwitz exhibition and the Yugoslav pavilion was eventually closed in 2009.

The Serbian Ministry of Culture said in a statement on Thursday that the agreement “envisages the joint financing of the renovation and conservation of the first floor of Block 17 and the common rooms and structures that the former Yugoslav republics share with Austria”.

The agreement also envisages “the joint financing of the costs of implementing a joint permanent exhibition at the place of remembrance for the victims from the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the concentration camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp”.

Montenegrin Culture Minister Tamara Vujovic said that “through this agreement, Montenegro and other former Yugoslav republics are showing solidarity and commitment to preserving the memories that connect us”, Radio Television Montenegro reported.

The director-general of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, Wojciech Soczewica, said after the signing that it was “a clear sign” that the governments of the six ex-Yugoslav states “are willing … to contribute to memory and our responsibility towards future generations”.

The announcement of the agreement came ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, when ceremonies are being held in countries across the region to commemorate the victims.

On Friday in Zagreb, a Croatian parliament delegation led by speaker Gordan Jandrokovic laid a wreath at the monument to Moses at the Mirogoj cemetery, while deputy prime minister Davor Bozinovic did the same on behalf of the government.

“This is also a moment to remember what the Jewish people contributed to Croatian society,” said Zvonimir Troskot from the MOST (Bridge) party, who was part of the parliamentary delegation.

A wreath was also laid on behalf of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, whose president, Pedja Grbin, said the Holocaust was a crime that “must never happen again”.

“Unfortunately, today we see the hatred that is flourishing in Europe and the world. Again, people are attacked because they are different,” Grbin warned.

“If you look around the world, the number of people who deny that the Holocaust even happened is frightening,” he added.

Traditional Jewish visitation stones were also placed at the monument in memory of the Holocaust’s victims by the president of the Jewish Municipality of Zagreb, Ognjen Kraus, and Rabbi Luciano Moshe Prelevic.

In the Bosnian capital on Friday, the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Jewish Municipality of Sarajevo also organised a commemorative event to honour Holocaust victims.

Jakob Finci, president of the Jewish Community, noted that six million Jews perished in the Holocaust, but some survived.

“Today, despite the passing years, we have nearly 245,000 people who survived the Holocaust. Of them, 54 live in our country. Therefore we should, not only for them who are alive but for ourselves, remember it and speak about it to others,” Finci said.

In Montenegro, parliament and the Jewish Community will hold a commemoration on Saturday.

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The world observes the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust – millions of Jews exterminated by the Nazis during World War II

For Ukraine, this day is full of special tragedy as at least one and a half million people, European Jews tortured by the Nazis, were killed on Ukrainian soil. Every new generation must know the truth Source : www.promoteukraine.org/the-world…

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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COMMEMORATION IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST - 27 JANUARY 2024 - ஹோலோகாஸ்டில் பலியானவர்களின் நினைவாக சர்வதேச நினைவு தினம் - 27 ஜனவரி 2024.

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Unveiling Auschwitz: A Comprehensive Guide to the Camp's Significant Sites

Auschwitz tours, located in present-day Poland, was a complex of Nazi concentration and extermination camps during World War II. It remains a solemn reminder of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. Here is a comprehensive guide to some of the significant sites within Auschwitz:

Auschwitz I: Main Camp

Entrance Gate (Arbeit Macht Frei): The infamous wrought-iron gate with the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) greeted prisoners upon arrival.

Commander's Headquarters: Explore the building where Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, had his office.

Prisoners' Blocks: Visit the barracks where inmates were housed in cramped and unsanitary conditions.

Execution Wall: The wall where thousands of prisoners were shot.

Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Extermination Camp

Selection Platform: Witness the site where arriving prisoners faced life or death decisions, as SS officers determined who would live and who would die.

Crematoria and Gas Chambers: Explore the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria, where mass extermination took place.

Railway Ramp: Imagine the arrival of trains carrying victims and the immediate separation of families.

Birkenau Memorial: Pay respects at the memorial erected near the ruins of Crematorium II.

Auschwitz III-Monowitz: Slave Labor Camp

Industrial Facilities: Learn about the forced labor and inhumane conditions endured by prisoners working for the IG Farben industrial complex.

Prisoners' Living Quarters: Explore the remains of barracks where inmates lived in deplorable conditions.

Soviet Liberation Monument

Red Army Memorial: Visit the monument erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army in January 1945.

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Documentation and Exhibitions: Explore the museum's exhibitions, which include personal belongings, photographs, and documents that provide insight into the lives of the victims.

Educational Programs: Participate in educational programs offered by the museum to gain a deeper understanding of the Holocaust.

International Memorial Day

January 27th: Attend commemorative events held on International Holocaust Remembrance Day to honor the victims and reflect on the importance of preventing such atrocities in the future.

Visitor Information

Guided Tours: Consider taking a guided tour for a more in-depth understanding of the historical context and personal stories.

Respectful Behavior: While visiting Auschwitz, maintain a solemn and respectful demeanor to honor the memory of the victims.

Remember, Auschwitz is a place of immense historical significance and tragedy. It is essential to approach the visit with sensitivity and an understanding of the gravity of the events that transpired there.