January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Today, we remember the innocent lives lost during the Holocaust and the Nazi regime and reaffirm our commitment to standing against anti-Semitism, hatred and discrimination.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was first established in 2005 by the United Nations and is observed annually on Jan. 27 – the same day in 1945 when the Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated by the Soviet Union.
More than six million Jewish people were killed, including one million at Auschwitz-Birkenau