The International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
By Fred Komarow
January 27th is designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). Since 2005, the UN and its member states have held commemoration ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism.
On November 1st, 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7 to designate January 27th as International...