Holocaust Remembrance Day

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which occurs on January 27, is the first universal commemoration in memory of the victims of The Holocaust. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly.

January 27 is the date, in 1945, when the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) was liberated by Soviet troops.

Let us always remember these words by Pastor Martin Niemöller

"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists ,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me
and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."

Always speak up - nay, yell out - when you see someones human rights denied or trampled on.