International Holocaust Remembrance Day marked today

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked today, January 27.

As Deutsche Welle writes, every year on January 27, the millions of victims of the Nazi reign of terror (1933-1945) are remembered, with commemorative concerts, interviews with contemporary witnesses or guided tours of memorial sites acroos the world.

The date also marks the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, by Soviet troops in 1945. In 2005, the UN General Assembly declared January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

The United Nations will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, January 28, with a series of events, including a special session of the UN General Assembly that will include speeches by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon.

Following the General Assembly event, the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, in cooperation with the Missions of Peru and Portugal, will hold an event to open an exhibition devoted to diplomats who are Righteous Among the Nations at the organization's headquarters in New York.

UN Secretary General Guterres will take part in the Israeli event alongside ambassadors and relatives of the diplomats recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, Arutz Sheva reports.

At the conclusion of the events, Ambassador Danon will lead a delegation of 40 UN ambassadors to Poland to visit the death camps, and then arrive in Israel. This mission is in conjunction with the March of the Living and the American Zionist Movement.