Holocaust Remembrance Day More Relevant Than Ever | Europe | Deutsche Welle | 27.01.2006

Holocaust Remembrance Day More Relevant Than Ever Europe Deutsche Welle 27.01.2006

Jan. 27, 1945: The Red Army liberated Auschwitz, exposing Nazi brutality to the world. Sixty years later, the event is honored as the first International Holocaust Day. It comes at a time of heightened anti-Semitism.
Nazi rule in Germany lasted from 1933 to 1945 and cost the lives of six million European Jews, who were gassed, starved or worked to death in concentration camps across the war-torn continent.

On January 27, 1945, the concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland was liberated by the advancing Red Army of the Soviet Union. What they discovered there would become the legacy of the Nazi regime's brutality and inhumanity.

For ten years now, that date has been reserved in Germany for a day of remembrance, a day when the country remembers the day the Holocaust became a lasting scar on world history. This year, January 27 will become an international day of remembrance as the United Nations recognizes Holocaust Day as a global anniversary.