International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is an
international memorial day for the victims of the
Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the extermination of 6
million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma and Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people and
millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was
designated by the United Nations
General Assembly on 1 November 2005. The
resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24
January 2005 during which the United
Nations General Assembly marked
the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi
concentration camps and the end
of the Holocaust.
27 January is the date, in 1945, when the
largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau,
was liberated by Soviet troops.
The Holocaust Remembrance Day is also a national event in the United
Kingdom and in Italy.
"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed."
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Here are some useful Web sites for teaching and learning about the
Holocaust:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/acts-of-remembrance-reflecting-on-how-the-holocaust-is-taught/
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/h/holocaustmemorialday.asp
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/resources/h/holocaustmemorialday.asp
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