January 27 is designated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Ukraine and worldwide.
On this day in 1945, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front released the prisoners of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers Auschwitz-Birkenau, near Auschwitz, Poland. It is officially acknowledged that up to six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, including 2.2 to 2.5 million in the former Soviet Union, mostly in Ukraine.
On this annual day of commemoration, the whole world fights against anti-Semitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that can lead to targeted violence against a particular group of people.
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