Remembering Different Days

Targeted Groups Murdered By Nazi Germany:     1933-1945

- Jews:   6 million people

- Soviet civilians:  7 million people (including 1.3 million Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews)

- Soviet prisoners of war: 3 million soldiers (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers)

- Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million people

- Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 312,000

- People with disabilities: 250,000 people

- Roma (Gypsies): 196,000–220,000 people

- Jehovah's Witnesses:  1,900 people

- Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials:   70,000 people

- Homosexuals:  5,000 to 15,000 people held in concentration camps with 60% of those murdered.

Holocaust Memorial Days:

-          The United Nations: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945.  One million men, women and children were killed there. Memorial Day since 2005.

-          The European Union: January 27^th:  The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there. Memorial Day since 1950.

-          Israel: 27 Nisan on the Hebrew Calendar (April or May): Commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which lasted from April 19- May 16, 1943. 13,000 men, women and children were killed during the Uprising and 56,885 people were deported to concentration and death camps. Memorial Day since 1959.

-          Austria: May 5^th: The Day the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria was liberated by the United States in 1945. Memorial Day since 1998.

-          Bulgaria: March 10^th: The day of the revocation of the plan to expel the country's Jewish population (the Rescue of the 50,000 Jews in Bulgaria) in 1943. Memorial Day since 2003.

-          Czech Republic: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there.

-          France: July 16^th: The anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup where the French police arrested 13,152 Jews (including 4,000 children) in Paris in 1942 and where the majority died in Auschwitz.

-          Germany: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there. Memorial Day since 1996.

-          Greece: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there.  Memorial Day since 2004.

-          Italy: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there. Memorial Day since 2000.

-          The Netherlands: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there.

-          The Netherlands: May 4^th: Commemorates all civilians and members of the armed forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands who have died in wars or peacekeeping missions since the beginning of the Second World War.

-          Poland: April 19^th: Commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which lasted from April 19- May 16, 1943. 13,000 men, women and children were killed during the Uprising and 56,885 people were deported to concentration and death camps.

-          Romania: October 9^th: Commemorates the beginning of Romanian deportations of Jews to Transnistria, in 1941. A total of 380,000 Romanian Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Memorial Day since 2004.

-          Serbia: April 22^nd: Commemorates the escape attempt from the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1945. Over 1,000 prisoners revolted and tried to escape. Most were killed and less than 100 managed to escape. The next day, partisan units approached the camp and the liberation of Jasenovac began.

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

-          Sweden: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there.  Memorial Day since 1999.

-          The United Kingdom: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there.  Memorial Day since 2001.

-          Canada: January 27^th: The day the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz in 1945. One million men, women and children were killed there. 

-          Canada: 27 Nisan on the Hebrew Calendar (April or May): Commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which lasted from April 19- May 16, 1943. 13,000 men, women and children were killed during the Uprising and 56,885 people were deported to concentration and death camps.

-          The United States: 27 Nisan on the Hebrew Calendar (April or May) for 8 days: Commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which lasted from April 19- May 16, 1943. 13,000 men, women and children were killed during the Uprising and 56,885 people were deported to concentration and death camps. Memorial Day since 1979.