Today marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the six million Jews and millions of others who were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.
The 20th century saw two waves of Ashkenazi Jewish immigration to Costa Rica from Western Europe: the first from 1929 to 1930, and the second from 1945-1948, in the aftermath of World War II.
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The Media s Role In Combating Holocaust Denial
An Online Event Focusing on Combating Holocaust Denial, Misinformation and Antisemitism
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NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), in partnership with The Paley Center for Media, announces an online event PaleyImpact: The Media s Role in Combating Holocaust Denial, Misinformation and Antisemitism http://www.claimscon.org/remember/ in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was designated by the United Nations to commemorate the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The event, moderated by Emmy award-winning journalist,
‘Starved for human kindness’: The liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust
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Posted Jan 27, 2021
FILE - A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms at the time behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp.AP Photo/CAF pap, file
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On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland.
Soldiers freed more than 7,000 people who had been held at the camp by Nazi Germany. They were starved and tortured.
The Soviets also found piles of corpses and piles of clothing, shoes and human hair removed from people who had been executed in the gas chamber.
Whenever there’s an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don’t know.
For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and older found that 11% of U.S. adults and 22% of millennials had not heard of – or were not sure if they had heard of – the Holocaust.
Almost half of U.S. adults – 45% – and millennials – 49% – could not name one concentration camp or ghetto that was established in Europe during the Holocaust, the survey found.
The survey also showed how there’s an overwhelming lack of personal connections to the Holocaust. Most Americans – 80% – had never visited a Holocaust museum and two-thirds – 66% – did not know, or know of, a Holocaust survivor. A significant majority of American adults believed that fewer people care about the Holocaust today than before.
Personal Thoughts on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Today, the world remembers the 11 million innocent people murdered by the Nazi Regime in 1940s Germany, at a time when the free world is plagued with targeted hatred and bigotry.
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum s website, there were far more people who died during the Holocaust than the 6 million Jews who were killed. The website indicates that German authorities also persecuted other groups because of their perceived racial and biological inferiority. These included Roma ( Gypsies ), people with disabilities, some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others), Soviet prisoners of war and Black people, the website states.