The UN designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims. 🕯️🙏🏽
The Anne Frank Museum welcomed the research, but says it leaves many questions unanswered.
"We must be vigilant and not look the other way as we did then," she said."Hatred, racism and antisemitism must not be the last word in history." To tackle Holocaust denial, UNESCO and the World Jewish Congress launched a partnership Thursday with the online platform TikTok popular with youngsters. They say it will allow users to be oriented toward verified information when searching for terms related to the Shoah.
In Italy, members of the Jewish community and lawmakers gathered in Rome's Ghetto to lay a wreath on the site where more than 1,000 people were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz on Oct. 16, 1943. Among the participants in the commemoration was the Italian senator-for-life, Liliana Segre, a 91-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who has made educating younger generations about the Holocaust her life's work.