McGill observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 27, 2023
On the afternoon of Thursday, January 26, 2023, McGill University held its inaugural International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration. The event took place in the atrium of the Macdonald Engineering Building on the downtown campus.
In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27 as an international day to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism, and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides. The UN chose the date because it marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
