Memorial Days

This Friday (January 27th) is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The UN and most of the World (especially: Azerbaijan, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine and the United Kingdom) remembers the Holocaust on January 27th because it is when the Auschwitz Concentration and Death Camp Complex was liberated in 1945.

1.1 million Men, Women and Children were murdered at Auschwitz in German-Occupied Poland alone (out of the 6 million Jews and 4 million non-Jews.)

There are other Holocaust Remembrance Days:

- Israel’s Yom HaShoah is either in April or May (depending on the year) and remembers the Jewish fighters who fought the Germans during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943.

13,000 Jewish Men, Women and Children were killed inside the Ghetto during the Uprising (6,000 of them burned alive or died from poison gas), 50,000 of the Uprising survivors were sent to the Majdanek and Treblinka Death Camps and gassed (doesn’t include the 265,000 people deported and murdered from the Ghetto in 1942.)

Austria: May 5th: The day that the Mauthausen Concentration Camp was liberated in 1945 by the US Army.

Bulgaria: March 10th: The day of the revocation of the plan to expel the country's Jewish population.

France: July 16th: Anniversary of the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews in Paris by the French Police in 1942 and their extermination at Auschwitz.

Latvia: July 4th: Anniversary of the Burning of the Great Choral Synagogue in Riga in 1941.

Lithuania: September 23rd: Anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto in 1943.

Slovakia: September 9th: Anniversary of when Slovakia passed anti-Jewish laws based on the Nuremberg laws in 1941.

The United States: January 27th (Liberation of Auschwitz) and 8 days in April or May (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) known as the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust since 1979.

Regardless of the date the important thing is to Remember the Holocaust and to understand that Worldwide Anti-Semitism is at its highest level since the 1940s (especially in: the US, the UK, Spain, Poland, Russia, Germany, Canada, France, etc.)