Holocaust Commemoration Day

The Holocaust Commemoration Day was set in 2005 by the UN as the day to commemorate the victims of the genocide committed by the Nazi regime during World War II.

Between 1939-1945, the Third Reich systematically murdered over six million Jews, two million Gypsies, 15,000 homosexual people and millions of others.

The day marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Bikenau by the Soviet Union on January 27, 1945.