International Holocast Day
By marcyaz
@Marcyaz (35316)
United States
January 27, 2016 10:07am CST
This day Jan. 27th is the day we remember the 6 million Jewish people killed in World War II along with about 5 million non Jews.
The United Nations chose to commerate the victims on this day. We hope to never have this happen again.
Countries having some type of remembrance on the 71st anniversary are: Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Isreal , Poland and the United States.
In the U.S. President Obama will attend an event at the Israeli Embassy also the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D. C. will hold a couple of events.
Is you Country having any type of remembrance?
The picture is the entrance to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp
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@Tampa_girl7 (54716)
• United States
27 Jan 16
I have been to Dachau Concentration Camp. It brought me to tears.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
27 Jan 16
@Tampa_girl7 I can imagine it would bring tears as so many people were murdered there. What a horrible time that was.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
27 Jan 16
It is an important remembrance day.
One that means more than just remembering but survival for some.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
27 Jan 16
@TiarasOceanView It is a day to remember who evil some people can be and it is also a day to remember the survivers, God Bless them.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
27 Jan 16
@TiarasOceanView
Horrific indeed and how some survived is unbelievable.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
27 Jan 16
@Marcyaz Yes God bless them Marcy indeed. Horrific it was for them.
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@LeaPea2417 (40037)
• Toccoa, Georgia
27 Jan 16
The Holocaust is something people should never forget about and how evil it was. What disgusts me are those who are Holocaust deniers. There is so much evidence that it happened. What is wrong with those people who deny it?
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
22 Feb 16
Like you, I hope nothing like that ever happens again. I can't even imagine what it would have been like to be in that time and in that situation.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
22 Feb 16
@VivaLaDani13
Don't you think that ISIS and those in Syria are doing just about the same thing today as happened back then?
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
22 Feb 16
@Marcyaz Yeah to be honest. I've thought about that so many times! You're right.
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
28 Jan 16
A horrible event that should have never happened. We must always remember those who lost their lives and survived the horror. I admire those special 'Angels' who hid and shielded so many. 
@crossbones27 (52961)
• Mojave, California
27 Jan 16
Not much seems to change or we seem to like to go back to horrific ways for some reason. Sad time that was and still some seem to want to try and dominate the world like that again.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
27 Jan 16
@crossbones27 It seems like ISIS is trying to do the same thing does it never stop or will there always be those types of people in the world.
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@DeborahDiane (40848)
• Laguna Woods, California
28 Jan 16
Yes, I live in the U.S., too, and there were several remembrances today. Even our President participated in one.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
28 Jan 16
@DeborahDiane Our president went to one of the events planned for this remembrance day which says a lot for him.
@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
27 Jan 16
A extremely sad time in history when human life was so disregarded by the forces of the evil in power in those days. It is a good reminder even the incidents that have happened in more recent times and pray that their will be a day where life will be held as sacred.
