International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of the Holocaust.
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It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated
by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
- 6 million Jewish people,
- 200,000 Romani people,
- 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and
- 9,000 homosexual men
by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgement, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”― Hannah Arendt
Words to remember: Yolocaust
Read more about Shapira's project Yolocaust, here.
