27 January - International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day
Monday, January 28, 2019 - 15:05
On 1 November2005, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution 60/7, marking 27 January as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the most notorious concentration camp, was liberated.
This resolution urges all United Nations members to respect the memory of Holocaust victims and encourage the development of educational programs on the history of the Holocaust, in order to show determination to help prevent the act of genocide in the future.