Today, Jan. 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a date more important than ever in light of a new surge in global antisemitism and deadly Islamic terrorism.
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The choice of Jan. 27 is not random. That was the 1945 date on which the Allies liberated Auschwitz, the most infamous of the Nazi death camps, where 1.1 million Jews, Catholics, and ethnic or political minorities perished. The overwhelming majority, about a million, of the victims were Jews. There were many other Nazi death camps (including Treblinka, pictured above), Jewish ghettos, and massacres that altogether took the lives of six million Jews, the Holocaust from which the global Jewish population has never recovered.
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We remember the six million
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