Holocaust Remembrance Day -Jan 27

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We must never forget some events. 9-11 is one of those. But even more are some of the larger events that happened just before our time. The murder of millions of Jews by the NAZIs ranks at/near the top of the list.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Find out how to observe this important day.

www.ushmm.org

January 27​

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.

 

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Sadly, it was preceded and followed by many other equally horrific holocausts.

 

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I visited Auschwitz/Birkenau over the Christmas/New Years holidays a number of years ago, in the dead of winter.
Words cannot possibly describe what I saw and felt. Horrible does not even come close.
I'lll leave it at that.

 

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Some pix from 2007. The entrance, the railroad tracks, the remaining "housing", Work will set you free, and the tops of the gas chambers/cremation buildings, and the gallows they hung the the guy running the place. No pix allowed in the gas chambers or crematory, but we walked through it.
Very unsettling.