What Is International Holocaust Remembrance Day?
070426-N-4965F-003 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (April 26, 2007) - Six memorial candles are lit during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Sharkey Theater on board Naval Station Pearl Harbor. The six candles were lit during the opening remarks of the remembrance observation to commemorate the lives of more than 6 million Jews that were lost during the Holocaust. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class James E. Foehl (RELEASED)

What Is International Holocaust Remembrance Day?

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…

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Jews from the Warsaw ghetto are marched through the ghetto during deportation. Warsaw, Poland, 1942-1943. — Instytut Pamieci Narodowej

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

[copied from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, ushmm.org] Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled…

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2015 Brenham March of Remembrance Update and photos
With an aim to “never forget,” the horrors of World War II’s Holocaust were observed in Brenham Saturday, april 18th, 2015 with a March of Remembrance program at the Cannery Kitchen.

2015 Brenham March of Remembrance Update and photos

The day was overcast and the sky full of clouds. The smell of rain was in the air. Still, the people came.of all ages  gathered together at the Cannery Kitchen…

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