Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an international memorial day that takes place every 27th of January commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War.
Memorial to Gay Victims of the Holocaust in Berlin. Its inscription reads: Totgeschlagen – Totgeschwiegen (Struck Dead – Hushed-Up).
It commemorates the lives of the people killed in a genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews, 8.7 million Slavs, 1.8 million ethnic Poles, 220,000 Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, 312,000 Serbians, 1,900 Jehovah’s Witnesses, and 9,000 homosexual men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
Pelosi was joined by her Democratic Representative colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Parkland Massacre survivor Cameron Kasky, Journalist Dan Rather and many more in tweets on social media.
On #HolocaustMemorialDay may we pledge that remembrance of past horrors and vigilance in the face of the ever-present currents of hate and intolerance must be a daily obligation.
It’s #HolocaustMemorialDay and it’s just as important today as any other day to talk to your kids about the Holocaust. There is a startling number of people MY AGE (I am an adult physically) that do not know about Auschwitz.
Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay – a day where #WeRemember not only the atrocities that result from the contagions of hatred + anti-Semitism, but also the fortitude of communities that continue to be impacted today.