January 27, has been designated by the United Nations as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in 1945. In March 1942, Slovakia signed an agreement with Germany that permitted the deportation of the Slovak Jews. In all, German and Slovak authorities deported more than 70,000 Jews from Slovakia; the Germans murdered more than 60,000 of them. The international #WeRemember campaign will be joined this year by several Slovak institutions, especially from the culture sphere. Radio Slovakia International dedicates to this day special programming.
Source: UN, RSI
Zuzana Botiková, Photo: TASR
