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Event    From 27/1/1945 

Holocaust / Holocaust Memorial Day

Categories: History, Tragedy

Countries: Austria, Germany, Poland

Holocaust / Holocaust Memorial Day

Events for this day (27 January every year) are organised by The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust which exists so that we learn the lessons of the past to build a better future now. It is responsible for the National Commemoration of HMD. It provides free resources, and advice, to local communities and schools to assist in commemorative events across the UK. Website gives invaluable information on events, talks, survivor testimonies.

Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Soviet Union troops on 27 January 1945.

The first Holocaust Memorial Day was commemorated in 2001.

Credit for this entry to: Beverley Duguid

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Holocaust / Holocaust Memorial Day

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Chelsea Football Club Holocaust memorial

This mural depicts 3 football players: one was a PoW held in Auschwitz, where...

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Cosmo Restaurant

November 2014 the plaque was reported as "torn down" but, with promises of a ...

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Hiroshima victims

Since 1950 CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) has organised an annual cer...

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Holocaust Memorial Day - Islington

Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2003

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Holocaust Memorial Day - W5

This plaque photograph is borrowed from BluePlaques.net.

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Jamestown Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia

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Battlefields Trust

Founded to preserve the battle sites of Britain. The founding motivation was the fact that the battlefield of Naseby, (a perfectly preserved site of the battle of the English Civil War), was to be ...

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