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(Last Updated On: January 25, 2023) HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Holocaust Remembrance Day – Each year on January 27th, the world remembers one of the most horrific events in modern history. This tragic event is known as the Holocaust. The holocaust occurred during WWII when Nazi Germany killed millions of innocent victims. The day is also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. #HolocaustRemembranceDay Nazi Germany is one of the evilest regimes that ever existed. They persecuted and killed millions of people in just under four years. One group in particular...

I wanted to go to Belzec (pronounced Biwzhets) because no one really does. One million Jews died there in the span of nine months - and hardly anyone knows about it. I felt it was a pilgrimage to a holy site: the second largest (after Treblinka) Jewish graveyard in history. Mike Tregenza was my guide. He is a non-Jewish, English historian who lectures at Lublin university. According to Sir Martin Gilbert, he is the world expert on Belzec. Belzec is a sleepy little hamlet in southeast Poland. A few thousand people live there. All seem to be related in some...

A nearly completed memorial walkway cutting through the Belzec death camp in Poland has sparked a legal and religious battle between two American Jewish groups. Condemning what they saw as "the desecration of the holiest Jews of all" inside the 60-acre camp, located in southeast Poland, Rabbis Avi Weiss and Shmuel Herzfeld, of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns Amcha, announced Wednesday in Warsaw they would take legal action against the Polish government in order to halt the construction of the path. Construction of the 200-meter walkway, part of a joint memorial project of the Polish government and the American Jewish...