The commemoration will air on Library and Archives Canada’s YouTube channel on January 26th at 6:30 p.m. In 2021, it is fitting that the IHRA is the focus of Holocaust remembrance in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, through a virtual ceremony developed by the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES). It was the first time the international community met “formally to commemorate the Holocaust, its victims, and the bravery of those who fought and defeated the Nazis.” Later that year, the General Assembly created International Holocaust Remembrance Day to be marked each year on or about January 27th. On January 24, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly convened a Special Session to mark the 60th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation. Then, in 1998, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), a 34-country organization was founded by former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson to ensure Holocaust education, research, and remembrance worldwide. Initially, interest in Holocaust education was minimal. By the 1960s, scholars and writers began using the word “Holocaust” and that gradually became the generally accepted description for the terrible events. In Hebrew, Shoah, meaning “the catastrophe”, was commonly used. In the five years of the infamous camp’s existence, more than 1.1 to 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, had been murdered there.įor decades after the war, these murders lacked a formal English title and were sometimes referred to by the Nazi term, “Endlösung”, meaning “The Final Solution”. Seventy-six years ago, on January 27th, 1945, troops of the Red Army entered Auschwitz concentration camp thereby liberating some 7,600 emaciated prisoners. Photo: Professor Yehuda Bauer, a world-renowned Israeli historian and Holocaust scholar.īy Sheila Hurtig Robertson and Marion Silver
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