Today is the
International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust as designated by a United Nations Resolution (
full text) adopted five years ago. The date-- Jan. 27-- is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp by the Soviet army. (
Background.) This year is the 70th anniversary of that liberation. The
ceremony scheduled at United Nations headquarters for today has been postponed until Wednesday because of the snow storm forecast for New York.