27/01/2025
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27 January marks the liberation in 1945 by Soviet troops of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp. This date was officially proclaimed in November 2005 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year, 2025, marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and 20 years since the Day was proclaimed.
More than one million people were murdered in this extermination camp. The majority of the victims of the Nazi Holocaust were Jews, but also Roma, LGBTI people, Jehovah's Witnesses, people with disabilities, political prisoners, etc.
2025 marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Eighty years ago, in response to the atrocities of the war and the Holocaust, governments of the world established the United Nations, pledging to work together to build a just world where human rights were enshrined, and all could live with dignity, in peace.
Acknowledging the milestone year, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme has chosen as its guiding theme for 2025, “Holocaust remembrance and education for dignity and human rights”.
The theme reflects the critical relevance of Holocaust remembrance for the present, where the dignity and human rights of our fellow global citizens are under daily attack.
The Holocaust shows what happens when hatred, dehumanization and apathy win.
Its remembrance is a bulwark against the denigration of humanity, and a clarion call for collective action to ensure respect for dignity and human rights, and the international law that protects both.
Holocaust remembrance safeguards the memories of survivors and their testament of life before the Holocaust – of vibrant communities, of traditions, of hopes and dreams, of loved ones who did not survive.
Safeguarding the history brings dignity to those the Nazis and their collaborators sought to destroy.
Remembrance of the Holocaust is a victory against the Nazis and their collaborators, and against all who would try to continue their legacy through spreading hatred, Holocaust distortion and denial into the 21st century.
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