International Holocaust Remembrance Day

High school (ages 12+)
Holidays & Celebrations

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/international-holocaust-remembrance-day

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the united nations designation date?November 1, 2005
2. What is the UN general assembly resolution number?60/7
3. Why is January 27 chosen for this day?Because on January 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army freed the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, showing the end of the Holocaust.
4. Who decided that this day should be special?The United Nations General Assembly made it official in 2005 with resolution 60/7.

Holocaust: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, alongside millions of others.
Genocide: The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Final Solution: The Nazi plan for the systematic extermination of the Jewish people.
Auschwitz-Birkenau: The largest and most infamous Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex, a primary site of the Holocaust.