UN holidays - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On January 27, the entire civilized world celebrates International Holocaust Remembrance Day It is difficult to call this day a holiday This is a memorable date calling on all future generations to remember those who laid down their lives on the altar of fascism “Holocaust” - translated from ancient Greek means “sacrifice”, “burnt offering” Today this term is associated with the destruction of the Jewish nation by the brutal policies of the Third Reich It is not known for certain where Hitler and his followers came up with the idea of ​​“cleansing the world of Jews”; opinions about this still differ On January 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated prisoners of the largest death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, located in Poland near the city of Auschwitz Historically, it was established that during the reign of the fascist invaders, several tens of thousands of such camps, created for the mass extermination of people, were founded They were very small, others, like Auschwitz, where about 16 thousand prisoners died every day The exact number of those killed in the brutal dungeons of Auschwitz has not been established, since the German fascists and their supporters did not keep accurate counts of those who arrived And subsequently, covering up the traces of their crimes, they completely tried to destroy and burn the remains of their camps At the Nuremberg trials, the number of victims of Auschwitz identified by that time was announced - 28 million people, 90% of whom were Jews Auschwitz was conceived by the German authorities as a camp for political prisoners of Poles, but after a meeting in 1942 in Berlin, it was decided to almost completely reclassify the camp for a final decision on the issue with the Jewish nation In addition to Jews, gypsies, mentally ill people, people with incurable diseases, homosexuals, and all those from whom it was necessary to cleanse the world were brought here Outside the camp gates, prisoners were also selected by so-called doctors, like Clauberg and Mengele To be experimented on by sadistic doctors was worse for many than to end up in a gas chamber or crematorium The term "Holocaust" today includes all victims of the brutal policies and ideology of fascism All those who died in the occupied camps from grueling work, beatings and epidemics, who were shot while trying to escape, who were tortured in sadistic medical laboratories This is a day of remembrance for those who went through savage camps and survived, and for those who will never leave the thorns of fascist captivity This date began to be celebrated at the official level in 2006, however, since 1945, no one has ever forgotten how on January 27, Soviet troops freed 7,500 prisoners who remained alive out of 6 million