January 27, 2021

Holocaust Memorial Day

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Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. For several years now I’ve been following the Auschwitz Memorial on Twitter and, if you can, I would recommend you do as well. They show photographs and bios of all the people killed in that camp.

But I say “if you can” because obviously there’s a terrible, almost unimaginable amount of human suffering on display there.

For the world #Auschwitz is a symbol of the #Holocaust & crimes of WW2, a painful reminder of what ideologies of hatred may lead humanity to. In 2005 @UN declared 27 January – the date of the liberation of #Auschwitz – as the International #HolocaustRemembranceDay pic.twitter.com/mLxlODRI3w

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) January 27, 2021