The United Nations General Assembly declared 27 January as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day according to the resolution of 1 November, 2005.
Not without reason did the United Nations choose 27 January: on 27 January, 1945, the troops of the Soviet army liberated the first and the largest of the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz, where more than 1.3 million people were killed during World War II.
The Holocaust can be described in the following way: the German Nazis and collaborators from other countries deliberately and systematically persecuted and killed representatives of the Jewish people, Slavs, Gypsies, people with mental and physical disabilities. A special system was developed in the Third Reich, and death camps were created in Germany and on the territories occupied by Germany in terms of that system. They carried out cruel and inhumane medical experiments, constantly improved the technology of destruction.
About 6 million of the Jewish people became victims of the Holocaust. Over 800,000 Jews were killed on the territory of Belarus. Millions of Soviet prisoners of war and civilians, people from Europe died in the death camps.
