Headline Roundup • January 27th, 2022
Perspectives: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Summary from the AllSides News Team
In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This was the day in 1945 that the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army.
A small ceremony will take place at the site of the former Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where at least 1.1 million people were killed. Many other Holocaust Remembrance Day events will be held virtually around the world.
Outlets across the spectrum recognized the day of remembrance and highlighted the commemorative events taking place around the world. Coverage on all sides also highlighted reports of rising antisemitism and Holocaust misinformation on social media.
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Holocaust survivors and politicians warned about the resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial as the world remembered Nazi atrocities and commemorated the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on Thursday.
“I have lived in New York for 75 years, but I still remember well the terrible time of horror and hatred,” survivor Inge Auerbacher, 87, told the German parliament. “Unfortunately, this cancer has reawakened and hatred of Jews is commonplace again in many countries in the world, including Germany.”
Commemorations took place amid a rise of...
CNN (Opinion)
As a child of Holocaust survivors, nothing is more sacred and important to me than preserving the memory of this period. The international community has made great strides in educating the world about it.
Just last week, the United Nations adopted a resolution by consensus against Holocaust denial, while Egypt commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day for the very first time, in an event sponsored by Cairo's US embassy and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Yet as we mark this year's International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am terribly saddened by efforts to minimize the...
Fox News (Opinion)
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date was chosen because, on January 27, 1945, the infamous Nazi German slave labor and death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by the Soviet army.
The camp, actually it was a complex of camps and work sites, was the destination for more than 1.3 million people arrested, deported, and enslaved by Hitler’s regime. Beyond imagination, an estimated 1.1 million were murdered there, of whom one million were Jews from across Europe and one hundred thousand were...
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