Survivors,13 ambassadors and other embassy representatives from 25 countries lit candles at Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27.
The ceremony, in the museum's Hall of Remembrance, marks the 66th anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.
The museum estimates that at least 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, of the 1.3 million sent there between 1940 and 1945.
To see the museum's historical photos of Auschwitz, click here.
To view the museum's album “Auschwitz through the lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi leadership at the camp”, click here.
To watch museum's historical film footage of the liberation at Auschwitz, click here.
To see the museum’s online collections, click here.
The United Nations designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005. The U.N. resolution that created the day rejects denial of the Holocaust, and condemns discrimination and violence based on religion or ethnicity.
For more info: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW (at the National Mall), Washington, DC, 202-488-0400. The museum's Holocaust Encyclopedia, www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/. The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program, www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/.
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