Question: On which of the following date International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed?
(a) 7 January
(b) 17 January
(c) 27 January
(d) 7 February
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:
- International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) is observed on 27 January.
- The objective of the day is to commemorate the anniversary of the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War.
- A genocide occurred during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.
- Theme for 2022 is “Memory, Dignity and Justice”.
BY: AMIT GUPTA
Reference: https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/holocaustremembranceday