Holocaust Memorial Day
Events near you commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust
Events are already taking place around the country to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. On 27 January it will be the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
From 1941 to 1945, Jews were targeted and murdered in a genocide. This methodical action also included the ethnic cleansing of any other race considered inferior by Germany's Nazis. Non-Jewish victims included Gypsies, Poles, communists, homosexuals, Soviet POWs, and the mentally and physically disabled.
In total, approximately 11 million people were killed, including one million Jewish children alone. A network of facilities in Germany and German-occupied territories were used to concentrate, confine, and kill Jews and other victims.
Eva Fahid was one of the lucky ones to survive the death camps. She was an 18-year-old schoolgirl when she was put on a train and deported from Debrecen in eastern Hungary to Auschwitz — one of nearly 440,000 Hungarian Jews sent to death camps between May and July in 1944.
In this video you can see what a wonderful person Eva turned out to be despite of the horrors she had to endure.
Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army. Over 20 million Russians gave their life in the fight against nazism.
For a complete list of events unfolding in the UK, please click HERE
