The Holocaust Memorial Day, was held on January 27, here’s what it’s all about.

What is The Holocaust Memorial Day?

The United Nations General Assembly requested The outreach programme, entitled The Holocaust and the United Nations, in it's resolution A/RES/60/7, commencing 1 November 2005.

Quoting from the United Nations Website:

The Holocaust and the United Nations outreach programme seeks to remind the world of the lessons to be learnt from the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide.

The United Nations General Assembly were all in agreement that the events, and tragic loss during the Holocaust was a fact in our history, and must not be forgotten.

Where did the memorials take place?

Most countries participate in the Holocaust Memorial Day. The United Nations Headquarters is in New York, although the other United Nation offices in other countries also are a part of the event.

Local Schools, charities, and exhibitions, and showing of films, have been growing in popularity rate, and some links will listed at the end of this article.

The United Nations main goal is for remembrance and to educate, about the Holocaust, with their goal being for the world to say, ‘Never Again', with the intention of preventing future acts of genocide.

Facts about the Holocaust.

The Holocaust, as most know it to be, an outraged slaughter of atleast 6 million people, due to Nazi predigest, bigotry, and sheer hatred of the Jewish Religion, all in the goal of crafting what was considered to be the perfect Aryan race.

The official definition runs something like this.

The Holocaust was a systematic, state-organized persecution of Jews and other targeted groups by the Nazi state and its collaborators. During the Holocaust two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population was slaughtered which calculates to one-third of the world population of Jews. In addition, the Nazi's genocide exterminated millions of Gypsies (Roma and Sinti about 200,000), Soviets, Polish citizens, Catholics, homosexuals, handicapped, alcoholics, political and religious dissidents and Jehovah Witnesses.

The Holocaust is many times called by other names. The Nazi's spoke of it as die Endlosung or the "Final Solution" for the Jew's extermination. In the early 1940's a Yiddish word churb'n, which means "destruction", was utilized. Others utilized the word Sho'ah that means "catastrophe."

The term Sho'ah is commonly used in Israel and is used for official Remembrance Day for the Holocaust called Yom HaSho'ah, which occurs in the spring.

This Information is credited to "The Holocaust Chronile."

The persecutions were spread like a wild fire of silent thieves in the night. Many Holocaust survivors admittedly said that their families had no idea of the horrible fate that awaited them, during their train ride to their final doom. Even Jews who had heard of the Holocaust, were in such disbelief that such horrible things could be real, that even when they were being carted like cattle, they still didn't believe they would be executed.

Another historical fact about the Holocaust.

Polish children were actually kidnapped and adopted out to childless German families, if they had the image of the Aryan Model. Typically, blue eyes, blond hair, and fair skin. Eventually the majority of those children were executed along with their deceased families.

It has been said that 11% of the Jewish children who were alive in 1933, were still alive by 1945.

Evacuation and forced march from Auschwitz-Birkenau takes place. Of 31,894 prisoners in the last roll call, 16,577 are reported to be female.

There were 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust.

Enemies of the State-Exterminations

How did the Holocaust end?

1945

**Chronology is excerpted from Love Carried Me Home: Women Surviving Auschwitz: Simcha Press (Miller, Joy, 2001)

The loss and suffering that was endured for the victims, their families and the survivors of the Holocaust is grave beyond scope, the United Nations is working diligently, strongly and will never let go of that painful part of history, in respect to never allowing such a travesty ever to occur again.

Peace and Love all around to globe, to the Children, and Grandchildren, and associates of victims to the Holocaust, this Holocaust Memorial Week.