January 27 – International Holocaust Remembrance Day
On this day, Auschwitz–Birkenau concentration camp was liberated — a place that became the ultimate symbol of hatred, dehumanization, and the mass extermination of human lives.
Today we remember the six million European Jews who were murdered — men, women, children, entire families and communities. Among them were Lithuanian Jews, whose lives were brutally cut short, forever changing the world we live in.
Remembrance is not only about honoring the past. It is also a responsibility in the present — a responsibility to confront hatred, antisemitism, racism, and violence, and never allow them to become “normal.”
The Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers. It began with words, with silence, with indifference.May this day call on all of us to remember, to learn, and to protect our shared humanity.
Remembrance is our collective commitment.
