International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2024)

January 27^th is recognized as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, to remind us of our responsibility to respond with humanity, and to do all we can to prevent genocide. 

On January 27, 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – where more than one million people were sent to gas chambers and to their agonizing deaths during the Holocaust – was liberated. In 2005, that day was designated as the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Each year, Canadians and individuals all over the world take this opportunity to remember the victims of the atrocities of the Holocaust and reflect on the dangers of anti-Semitism.

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