January 27th is International Holocaust Day. Seventy-seven years ago, today the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp was liberated. More than a million people’s lives were taken at that camp alone.
Today we reflect on the cruelty of the Holocaust. Millions of people targetted on the basis of their religion, ethnicity, political beliefs and sexual orientation, including six million Jewish people, were killed by the Nazis. It’s important to mark this solemn occasion and remember the lives of all those murdered and honour them alongside their surviving family members.
In our modern global climate with the rise of extremism, geopolitical tensions, and reemerging intolerance and racism, it’s crucial that we look back to learn the lesson this savage period in history has taught us, so it can never be allowed to happen again.