International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust

WARSAW, POLAND - JANUARY 27: (SOUTH AFRICA AND POLAND OUT) Dignitaries and locals honour the victims of the Holocaust on January 27, 2015 in honour of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust next to The Ghetto Heroes Monument (Pomnik Bohaterów Getta) in Warsaw, Poland. The day commemorates when the Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland on January 27, 1945. It is hoped that through remembering these events, people will remember the Holocaust and prevent further genocide form taking place. (Photo by Adam Guz/Getty Images Poland/Getty Images)