Holocaust Memorial Day

27 the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp 77 years ago as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The results go on show at the Queens Gallery at Buckingham Palace today while a television documentary following their creation and telling the survivors stories will air tonight.

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This year the theme is one day.

. Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27 January. The United Nations designated Jan. Holocaust Encyclopedia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Holocaust Museum in. To mark this years Holocaust Memorial Day the Prince of Wales commissioned a group of artists some associated with his Drawing School to portray seven Holocaust survivors. It also offers one day to set aside to remember the past and to create a world that will.

For further information about Holocaust Memorial Day visit their website. The Holocaust was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The theme which is open to interpretation encourages participants and events to focus on one day in history to learn more about or one day when life changed for a Holocaust survivor.

More about World War Two Find out all about the conflict which lasted from 1939 to 1945.

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