Why 27 January?
• 27 January is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis established four operational gas chambers with a capacity of over 12,000 murders a day. Auschwitz has come to symbolise the mass murder of European Jewry, along with Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka. • The Auschwitz complex was made up of several large slave-labour complexes and scores of small slave labour units, where victims of all backgrounds and persuasions faced persecution, starvation, torture and death. The Auschwitz complex as a whole has come to represent the brutal ideology of the Nazi regime. • 27 January is the day chosen by the Governments of a number of other European countries to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, including Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Belgium and Poland. The United Nations and the Council of Europe have also marked 27th January as a day of remembrance.
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