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Holocaust Remembrance/ 81 years since the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz camp

2026-01-27 10:11:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

This Tuesday, January 27, marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Eighty-one years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the most notorious Nazi death camp.

In November 2005, the UN General Assembly (Resolution 60/7) declared 27 January as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Holocaust and the Victims of National Socialism. It stated that "the Holocaust, in which one third of the Jewish people and countless members of other minorities were murdered, will always serve as a warning to all people against the dangers of hatred, intolerance, racism and prejudice". Germany and other countries had previously designated it as a day of remembrance.

On January 27, 2006, the first international day of remembrance of the Holocaust and the victims of National Socialism, then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said: "The unparalleled tragedy of the Holocaust cannot be undone. Its memory must be kept alive with shame and horror, as long as human memory lasts."

Referring to historical facts, on January 27, 1945, the Soviet armed forces, the Red Army, liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The soldiers found some survivors, the ruins of the gas chambers, the dead, and the ashes of the murdered. About 1.1 million people were killed in Auschwitz alone. The majority of them, about 90 percent, were Jews, and Auschwitz was just one of the many places of internment and mass murder by Nazi Germany in Europe.

January 27 is an obligation for all UN member states to remember the men, women and children persecuted and murdered. Resolution 60/7 rejects any form of Holocaust denial. It supports the development of educational programs for Holocaust remembrance and aims to help prevent future genocides.

Based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the resolution condemns all forms of "religious intolerance, incitement to hatred, oppression or violence against individuals or communities on the basis of their ethnic origin or religious belief" anywhere in the world.