On January 27th, 1945 the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration and Death Camp was liberated.
On November 1st, 2005, United Nations Resolution 60/7 established January 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It urges every member nation of the U.N. to honor the memory of Holocaust victims, and encourages the development of educational programs about Holocaust history to help prevent future acts of genocide.
It rejects any denial of the Holocaust as an event and condemns all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief.
It also calls for actively preserving the Holocaust sites that served as Nazi death camps, concentration camps, forced labor camps and prisons, and for establishing a U.N. program of outreach and mobilization of society for Holocaust remembrance and education.
The exhibit is located on the 2nd floor of the Library and will be on view until February 10th during the library’s opening hours.
