On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated.
A United Nations General Assembly resolution from 2005 designated 27 January as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated six million Jewish people.
By paying respects to the victims of the Holocaust, we condemn all forms of intolerance, threats or violence towards persons or communities based on ethnicity or religion, while at the same time condemning any form of Holocaust denial.
“It would be a dangerous error to think of the Holocaust as simply the result of the insanity of a group of criminal Nazis. On the contrary, the Holocaust was the culmination of millennia of hatred and discrimination targeting the Jews – what we now call anti-Semitism,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Croatia, as a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), has been recognized as a country actively involved in the Holocaust education, research and commemoration, with the aim of raising the future generations’ awareness about these atrocities so that they would never happen again.