The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the victims of the...
JEWISH FIGHTING ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED In the midst of the first wave of deportations from Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center, the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa) is established. On July 22, 1942, the Germans begin massive...
[copied from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, ushmm.org] Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled and homemade weapons. Between 1941 and 1943, underground...
Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd, March of Remembrance Houston held remembrance ceremonies honoring heroes and survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. Let the sound of our steps break the silence of prejudice and indifference “If...
