International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Brazil joins today, January 27, in global commemorations of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2005.

This year, the date marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation by Allied forces of prisoners from the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Brazil—home to the second-largest Jewish community in Latin America and the tenth-largest in the world—is proud to have welcomed Holocaust survivors and reaffirms on this day its unwavering commitment to human rights and its condemnation of racism and all forms of discrimination.