This date was the day Soviet troops liberated the German Nazi-run Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland in 1945.
The United Nations General Assembly designated that day in 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The UN resolution also rejected any denial of the Holocaust as an historical event, urged states to develop educational programs that will instruct future generations about the horrors of genocide, and called for actively preserving sites that were involved in the Holocaust.
This year’s Remembrance Day theme is “Children and the Holocaust.”
It is estimated that 1.5 million European Jewish children died in the Holocaust, alongside some 4.5 million Jewish men and women.
compiled from agency reports
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