#international holocaust remembrance day
Today, January 27, 2017, marks 72 years since the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland. Today we remember the worst of humanity: genocide. Today we remember all the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. We remember the roughly 11 million people (1.1 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp) who were slaughtered simply for who they were and those who were imprisoned, and sometimes killed, for what they believed.
The Nazi regime murdered an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled non-Jewish/non-Romani people, and 9,000 non-Jewish/non-Romani gay men all in the furtherance of white supremacy and “racial purity.”
Today we remember them all and continue to fight against fascism, totalitarianism, and white supremacy so that this never again happens.
Today, January 27, 2018, marks 73 years. Never again.
Today, January 27, 2020, marks 75 years. Never again.
Today, January 27, 2021, marks 76 years. Never again.
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we honor the memory of the victims of this atrocity, and uplift the voices of the survivors and their descendants. May we continue to teach history, and never forget.
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