International Holocaust Remembrance Day

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is the day Auschwitz was liberated and in 2005 the UN made this day an international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The UN urges every member state to ""honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides." (it is also called the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.) As one response to the UN's call for education, the state of North Carolina enacted the Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act (NC Gen. Stat. 115C-81.57) which requires the Holocaust to be taught in public schools. This Act will go into full effect Fall of 2023. North Carolina is one of 22 states in the US requiring that the Holocaust be taught in the classroom. 

Take a moment on Friday, January 27 to remember the victims and the survivors of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. 

Published: Jan 26, 2023 3:41pm

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