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January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era. This year's theme is “Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion”
“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. ‘Holocaust’ is a word of Greek origin meaning ‘sacrifice by fire.’ The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were ‘racially superior’ and that Jews, were deemed ‘life unworthy of life.’ During the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived ‘racial inferiority’: Roma/Sinti (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
If you would like to know more about the events of the Holocaust we, at Shake Library, recommend you take a look at this guide provided by Yad Vashem, the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust. This guide will help answer questions like:
- Is the Holocaust a singular event in history?
- How many Jews were murdered in each country?
- Who were other victims of Nazism?
- Why didn't more Jews leave Europe before the war began?
- When and how did the Nazis decide to murder the Jews under their control?
- What were the extermination camps? When did they start to function?
- How did the Nazis try to hide their atrocities?
- What did the Jews of America do to help European Jewry during the war?
- Why didn't the allies bomb Auschwitz?
- What is Holocaust Denial?
You can view women's testimonies of the Holocaust by Clicking here.
Participate in the 2011 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Join the "I Remember" Wall on Facebook
- Add your name to the list of people showing their support at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
You can find more information about the Holocaust at Shake Library by searching our library catalog, VU Webcat
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