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Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is the international day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust and of other genocides. On it, we commemorate victims, honour survivors and commit to tackling prejudice, discrimination and racism in the present day. We encourage nations to conquer genocide and atrocity and individuals to stand up against hatred.
HMD is marked each year on 27 January the anniversary of the date of the liberation of Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
HMD sets out to motivate people to make sure that the horrendous crimes committed during the Holocaust and in more recent genocides, are neither forgotten nor repeated, whether in Europe or elsewhere in the world.
The Holocaust
Nazi Germany murdered six million Jews in a systematic, state-sponsored campaign of persecution and extermination now known as the Holocaust. It persecuted, incarcerated and murdered millions of its own citizens, and those of the countries it invaded, on the basis of skin colour; disability; sexual orientation; ethnicity; religious belief or political affiliation.
When the Nazis came to power, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. The Nazi campaign to exclude and persecute Jews, and others, as life unworthy of life began. By May 1945 close to two out of every three Jews in Europe had been murdered in the Holocaust.
Others targeted for death included upwards of two hundred thousand Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) and almost quarter of a million mentally or physically disabled people.The Nazis killed tens of thousands of Polish intellectual and religious leaders; deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labour and persecuted and incarcerated gay men and lesbians*.
Millions of lives were lost, or changed beyond recognition. The consequences of this loss and persecution are felt today by Holocaust survivors, their children and grand-children, in the UK and around the world.
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Will you be standing up to hate???
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