International Holocaust Remembrance Day happens each January to pay tribute to the memory of Holocaust victims. Over this last year, we have seen a rise in targeted racist attacks around the world, and the increasing importance of education on hate crimes like the Holocaust.

Did You Know?

• During the six years of World War II, over 6 million European Jews from across the continent were persecuted;
• German Jews were seen as an undesirable group of German society, because they were falsely claimed to have betrayed Germany in World War I and were believed to be responsible for German’s economic misery during the depression of the late 1920’s and early 1930’s;
• The Nuremberg Laws is the name given to two laws enacted in Nazi Germany in September 1935 that established a basis for racial identification and prompted a fresh wave of spontaneous bans on Jewish participation in German life.

More of these facts on the Holocaust can be found here.

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Listen to Eliezer Eizenschmidt’s story, and how he was the only member of his family to survive Auschwitz, a network of concentration and extermination camps constructed in Poland. Click here for the video.