Today Is International Holocaust Commemeration Day

Today is the United Nations'-declared annual International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Haaretz reports on plans in countries across Europe for marking the day. The January 27 date was chosen because it is the anniversary of the liberation in 1945 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by Soviet forces. The United Nations has sponsored a series of Holocaust Remembrance events this month, with an emphasis on this year's theme-- "Children and the Holocaust."