Pope Francis warned of “scourge anti -Semitism” in his prayer Angeles on Sunday, on the eve of International Holocaust memory, noting that this is 80 years after being released from being released from being released from being released Auschwitz concentration camp.
“The horror of extermination Millions of Jewish people And other different faiths in these years should never be forgotten and denied, “Frances said, citing the example of a poet born in Hungary, Edith Brooke, who lives in Rome.
“I restore my call to work together to eradicate anti-Semitism scourge, as well as every form of discrimination and religious persecution,” Francis said. “Together, let's build a more brotherly, fair world, teaching young people to be open to all, in the spirit of brotherhood, forgiveness and peace.”
He noted that many Christians were also killed in the Nazi concentration camps, “there were numerous martyrs.”
When is the Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025?
A International Holocaust Memory Day Falling on January 27, appointed by the United Nations General Assembly.
On January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers entered the Auschwitz concentration camp, the largest of its kind and released about 7,000 prisoners.
How will the Holocaust Memorial Day be celebrated?
Presidents, royalties, ambassadors, rabbis and priests will join those who survived the Holocaust on Monday afternoon in Southern Poland, where Nazi Germany killed more than a million people, most of whom are Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet Prisoners of war, prisoners of war and others are aimed at eliminating Adolf Hitler's racial ideology.
The Osvica-Birkenau State Museum says he expects about 50 Auschwitz and other camps to attend events.
The Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United States will be held at the event with three survivors, Ruth Cohen, Stephen Fence and Irene Weiss. In 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and for years they could not talk about the Holocaust, the museum reports.
Now, 80 years after the camp was released, they will recover their experience.
Yom hashoa
Another worldly recognized Date of Holocaust is the 27th day of Nissan on the Hebrew calendar. This is called Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, and the date is notes the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto.
This year Yom Hashoah will be celebrated on Thursday, April 24, in Israel because the actual date falls on Friday when Saturday is observed The US Holocaust Museum.
In the US, the Days of Remembrance are going from Sunday before Yom Hashoah until the next Sunday.