Holocaust victims honored 71 years after Auschwitz liberated

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the date the United Nations has chosen to commemorate victims of the Holocaust during World War II.

This year, for the first time, Taiwan joined over 100 countries around the world where remembrance events are held. If they spread war and hatred. Countries around the world also take place in ceremonies for Yom HaShoah, including Belgium, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Senegal, Slovakia and the Ivory Coast.

Jewish immigration to Israel from Western Europe grew a year ago due to a rise in anti-Semitic attacks.

“It is unacceptable that Jews are reluctant to wear their traditional clothes and display religious symbols in the public because of fear of reprisals and aggression”, he said in Brussels Wednesday according to the Telegraph.

Citing the increasing trend of Jews leaving Europe, the president highlighted his administration’s efforts to combat anti-Semitism, including urging other nations to appoint envoys on the matter, going so far as to say he’s made it clear to them that such appointments were “essential for… maintaining a healthy relationship with us”.

Alberto Mieli is one Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor, who has been recounting his experience to students in schools and universities, as a way of honouring the memory of his family and friends who never came back from the camps.

“Today with the refugee crisis from Syria, the men, women and children are from another faith, but Europe shares with them something so profound, both estimable and inestimable: our common humanity”.

“In the course of human events, the monumental evil of the Holocaust stands alone”, Mrs Foster said, before also speaking movingly of the plight of the Jews, Gypsies, the disabled and other minorities under the Nazis.

Deputies and guests paid tribute to the victims of the Nazi regime with a minute of silence and a speech to the delegates by Holocaust survivor during the worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2016 at the German parliament in Berlin.

At Auschwitz today dozens of elderly concentration camp survivors carried candles and wreaths at a commemoration attended by the Polish and Croatian presidents. “They were wearing different uniforms – green, woolen, thick ones”.

“The millions of individual stories during the Shoah remain deeply rooted in our national conscience”, said Merkel at the opening of the show, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. “And there was lard, pork scratchings and wholemeal bread to eat”.

Mrs Foster said: “The path of darkness trod by Germany and her allies during that time must be taught, learned, understood and studied again and again by each successive generation so that such things can not ever happen again”.