23.09.2010 - 23.09.2010
Lithuania has commemorated the victims of the Holocaust on the "National Memorial Day for the Genocide of the Lithuanian Jews" since 1994. The commemoration events take place on 23 September. The day was instituted to commemorate the victims of the destruction of the Vilnius ghetto in ...
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09.10.2010 - 09.10.2010
Governmental Decision no. 672 of 5 May 2004 designated 9 October as the "Commemoration Day of the Holocaust in Romania". This was because 9 October was the date on which Romanian troops began the deportation of Jews from Bessarabia, Bucovina and Southern Bucovina to ...
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27.01.2011 - 27.01.2011
On 27 January 1945, the advancing Soviet army entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp complex, liberating more than 7000 remaining prisoners, for the most part ill or dying. Days earlier, the SS had forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to evacuate the camp and embark on the infamous 'Death ...
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10.03.2011 - 11.03.2011
Decision No. 105 of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria, dated 19 February 2003, declared 10 March the "Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jewsand of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity", which is also known as "Holocaust and Victims of Crimes against ...
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16.04.2011 - 16.04.2011
Hungary commemorates the victims of the Holocaust on 16 April, the date of the establishment of the first ghetto on Hungarian territory (in Munkács) in 1944.Hungary's Holocaust Memorial Day was first marked in 2000. Since then, the marking of Holocaust Memorial Day has been compulsory in secondary ...
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19.04.2011 - 19.04.2011
Since 2004, Poland has commemorated the victims of the Holocaust on 19 April, which marks the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. It is called the "Day of Remembrance of Holocaust Victims". In addition to 19 April, 27 January is also commemorated in ...
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