Question: When is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day observed?
(a) 26 January
(b) 24 January
(c) 20 January
(d) 27 January
Answer: (d)
Related facts:
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed every year on 27 January.
- The day pays tributes to the memory of victims of Holocaust,the genocide that resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews and 5 million others, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
- On 27 January 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- The day was officially proclaimed in November 2005, by the United Nations General Assembly.
- The theme of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021 is “Facing the Aftermath: Recovery and Reconstitution after the Holocaust”.
By-Amar Mani Upadhyay
Links:
https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/holocaustremembranceday
https://www.un.org/en/node/104969