International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established in 2005 according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and is observed on January 27 each year. It correspo

The day is meant for people to remember the millions of Jewish people, and people from other backgrounds, who were killed by the Nazis during WWII.

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Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since its liberation by Soviet troops.

Kate Middleton loves jewelry with significant meaning. On Monday, the Princess of Wales attended a Holocaust Memorial Day service in London, where she debuted a special five-strand faux pearl necklace ($341).

Commemorative events on Holocaust Memorial Day are "vital", Alderney's vicar has said. The events on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the largest Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

For the 7,000 prisoners remaining—more than 60,000 had been forced to undertake a death march in the weeks before Allied troops arrived—liberation came as a bitter relief, overshadowed by the harrowing murder of 1.

General views of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 80th anniversary of its liberation. Heads of state and world leaders will gather at the site later to remember those who perished at the hands of the Nazi regime.