International Holocaust Remembrance Day

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Subject – IR

Context – Marked by the United Nations each year on the 27th of January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day provides an opportunity to recount the atrocities of the Holocaust that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews.

Concept –

• 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 by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.
• 27 January was chosen to commemorate the date that Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army of USSR in 1945.