Today is the 65th anniversay of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. The Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is usually held in the month of April. But on 27th January 1945 the Auschwitz camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army after the demise of about one million Jews - alone at Auschwitz, and a total of six million Jews. So why do we commemorate this day? Because it must never happen again.For further information, please see:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/26/auschwitz.liberator/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8483017.stm