Horrors of Holocaust remembered on Memorial Day

January 27 was chosen to mark Holocaust Memorial Day as it was on that date in 1945 that the Soviet Red Army liberated the biggest of the Nazi’s concentration camps, Auschwitz.

Up to 1 and a half million prisoners, most of them Jews, were killed in Auschwitz alone as Adolf Hitler’s Gemany set out to systematically destroy Europe’s Jewish population. Other victims included Poles, homosexuals, Russians and the Roma people, also known as gypsies.

Some 62 years on, Auschwitz stands as a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust.