Holocaust Day, January 27th  

This day is a tribute to the survivors of the nazi camps and is a national day of remembrance since 1999. It was this day in 1945 that the nazi camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Monowitz in Poland was liberated and the world got to know what the naizi government created, a holocaust causing the extermination of millions and millions of people, victims for rasism, intolerans and antisemitism. The UN has stated this day as an international day of remembrance over the victims of the holocaust. This day has many purposes, to remember and spread knowledge. There are people stating the holocaust never happend. We must keep it in our minds and never forget that it really happend, but soon there are no survivors left to tell. Therefore I think this day is a very important day. My own mother-in-law was one of the survivors, after living with her in our home for many years I can tell you, yes, it did happen. You are welcome to read her story here.

“First they came for the Communists, 
- but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists,
but I was neither, so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Jews,
but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.

And when they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.” 
Martin Niemoeller
1892-1984

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"The huge tragedy isn't the evil peoples brutality,
- but the good one's silence"
Martin Luther King