January 27th - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims and the millions of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust (Homosexuals, Poles, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma/Sinti, and the Handicapped).

Local Holocaust survivors lost more than 2600 family members in the Holocaust. Please help us to collect 2600 signatures in their memory.

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In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27th the annual international day of commemoration to honor Holocaust victims.

January 27th is the day associated with the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. Many European countries use this date for commemorative events.

To the thousands of survivors who were on the death march out of Auschwitz, and the many thousands who would not be liberated until the spring of 1945, January 27th is a controversial choice of dates. Israel and the United States continue to make their primary observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day on the date assigned on the Hebrew calendar, the 27th of Nissan. (This year the date falls on May 1.)

Nonetheless, the UN's move to create and recognize the victims of the Holocaust internationally is momentous as it urges Member States to develop educational programs to instill the memory of the tragedy in future generations to prevent genocide from occurring again...read UN document.

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