Georgia joins UN in marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27
International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945. Photo: US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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The Georgian government has decided to join the United Nations in marking January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, announces the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
The memory of the victims of the Holocaust was honoured every year in Georgia, and with the establishment of the official date of January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was set by the United Nations in 2005, Georgia once again expresses its solidarity with the commitment to the humanitarian principles of the world", reads the press-release published by the ministry.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945.
January 27 was chosen to commemorate the date that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
The day remembers the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime. It was designated by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 on November 1, 2005.
Find the digital Auschwitz Memorial Museum in honour of Holocaust Remembrance Day here.
A space and memorial dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust, the World War II genocide of European Jews, will be opened in Tbilisi, Tbilisi City Assembly officials stated earlier today, while marking the international day for Holocaust victims.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who is on her first official visit to Israel, has attended the 5th World Holocaust Forum with top state officials across the world earlier today.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust, the World War II genocide of European Jews.
Hundreds of people across Georgia have come together today to remember and honour the millions killed in the Holocaust and mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili honoured the memory of the millions of victims of the Holocaust on Thursday, marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust in comments for the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The Georgian Parliament, in cooperation with the Israeli Embassy in the country, on Monday commemorated the victims of Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews by the Nazi Germany during World War II, at the National Parliamentary Library in Tbilisi.