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Jan. 28, 2026 : The Holocaust represents one of the darkest chapters in human history. On January 27, 1945, the Allies liberated Auschwitz, the Nazi extermination camp where more than one million innocent people were murdered, the majority of them Jews. Among the victims of the Nazi regime was Polish Franciscan priest St. Maximilian Kolbe, who reminds us that even when evil seems to reach its peak, hope never dies.
To mark the historic moment where the survivors were freed, the date—January 27—was chosen by the United Nations in 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 2026 is the 25th anniversary of the creation of this day. The purpose of the day is to honour the memory of the victims of Jewish origin who were murdered during the Second World War by Nazi Germany.
Pope Leo XIV commemorated the International Day with a Tweet on his Pontifex account, stressing that “the Church remains faithful to the unwavering position of the Declaration Nostra Aetate against every form of antisemitism. The Church rejects any discrimination or harassment based on ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion.”
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