2. Holocaust Memorial Day or Holocaust Remembrance
Day may refer to a number of world-wide
commemorations of the Holocaust taking place
during World War II. Both an Israeli day of
remembrance and a day of remembrance observed by
many Jewish communities in the United States and
elsewhere in the world.
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4. January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg
appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
5. Every year around 27 January, UNESCO pays
tribute to the memory of the victims of the
Holocaust. This date marks the anniversary of the
liberation of the Nazi German Concentration and
Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by
the Soviet troops in 1945.
The Nazi regime and its collaborators murdered
about six million Jewish men, women and children
during the Second World War, in a systematic
attempt to destroy European Jewry.