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In Honor Of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sites To 'Never Forget'
the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — was designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The UN urges us annually to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Europe, and millions of other victims of Nazism in the 1930s and 40s, and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.
So to heed their call, here are a few of the important sites, museums and memorials that honor those who suffered in the Holocaust, one of the most unfathomable events in human history.
Traveling to sites is the ultimate way to bear witness to the Holocaust, and with that in mind I have traveled to camps, museums and memorials throughout the world.
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