On the Importance of Not Forgetting (Holocaust Memorial Day)

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'The Last Goodbye' is a painting by Edith Birkin, survivor of the Holocaust

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1. "Hope lives

when people remember" - Simon Wiesenthal

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

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3. Here's a link with lots of information and more links

https://www.ushmm.org/remember/international-holocaust-remembrance-day

January 27
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help

So, today is for the world to remember. In light of the rise in antisemitism and hate crimes, it seems there's a bit more attention being given to this, as there should be.

We Jews actually have our own holocaust remembrance day, called yom haShoah, which is observed in the spring, based on the Jewish calendar it falls about 2 weeks after Passover.
It was set in 1953 by the Israeli government/rabbinate.

Thanks for posting about this important day, that I generally don't recognize because I recognize the Jewish observance in the spring.

It's (somewhat) comforting to know the world remembers too.