January 27 is the day established by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Amazingly, today is only the fifth observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day! What was the UN’s hurry?!
Anyway, here are excerpts from two stories I read/scanned a few minutes ago:
Survivors and world leaders gathered in the bitter chill at Auschwitz on Wednesday to remember the hundreds of thousands who perished in one of Nazi Germany’s infamous concentration camps, 65 years to the day since troops of the Red Army liberated the camp.
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Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau of Tel Aviv, a holocaust survivor, recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer of mourning, and sirens wailed across the barracks and barbed wire where an estimated 1.1 million people died.
Source: Holocaust Memorial Day marked on Auschwitz liberation anniversary
Here’s one other article excerpt:
During the Holocaust, 6 million Jews and millions of others were systematically murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Yet many lived to tell their stories.
Arthur Berger, spokesman for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, said the first-hand accounts are important, especially in the Internet age when misinformation is easily spread. Those memories must be documented as much as possible, Berger said, in the hope that, by preserving the truth about what happened, future atrocities can be prevented.
Source: Victims, survivors honored International Holocaust Remembrance Day
According to Wikipedia, on this day in 1945, “The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.”
In case you forgot, I titled this post “Lest We Forget.” So I ask, Have the world’s powers that be forgotten Nazi Germany as Iran’s leaders make their anti-Israel, anti-Jew comments and threats? We shall see.