January 27 was chosen as International Holocaust Remembrance Day as it marks the day in 1945 when the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated. On this day we remember the victims of the Nazi Holocaust, during which six million Jews were killed in mass shootings and in concentration camps. We also honour members of other groups, such as the Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, 2SLGBTQI+ people, Black people, Slavic people, political opponents, and Jehovah’s Witnesses, who were persecuted and killed by the Nazis.

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