Memorial day:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

In 2005, the UN General Assembly declared January 27, the day of liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the largest and most notorious one in Nazi Germany, as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The unanimously adopted resolution emphasized the obligation of member states to commemorate the almost six million victims, most of them persecuted and murdered because of their Jewish origin, and commencing education programs to prevent similar events in the future. The resolution rejected the denial of Holocaust, and condemned in general ethnic and religious discrimination and violence. The Holocaust Memorial Center commemorates this day every year.