Auschwitz buildings today. From Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as an annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Why Jan. 27? It was on this day in 1945 that the largest World War II concentration camp, Auschwitz, was liberated.
Auschwitz, a network of three camps, was operated in Poland under German occupation from 1940-1945. It probably accounted for the death of over one million Jews. Among other well-known “death camps” were Dachau, Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen.