Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp.
The exact number of those killed in Auschwitz was never established, since many documents were destroyed, and the Germans themselves did not keep records of the victims sent to the gas chambers immediately upon arrival. According to the documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 2.8 million people died, 90% of whom were Jews.
Memorial Day was established by the resolution of the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005. The resolution is directed against attempts to deny the Holocaust as a historical event and condemns any manifestations of religious intolerance.
The Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance, with the support of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR), will hold an annual candle lighting ceremony, the FEOR press service reported.
On this day, the Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance will present the exhibition “Anne Frank. Holocaust Diaries. The project will tell the stories of six girls whose diaries, written in the ghettos and occupation zones, illustrate the tragic events of the Holocaust through the eyes of a teenager.
“We continue our resistance to anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and phenomena that should not occur in the 21st century. But our primary task is to prevent even the occurrence of these phenomena, ”said Alexander Boroda, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia.