Most International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations were being held online this year because of the coronavirus, including the annual ceremony at the site of the former Auschwitz death camp, where Nazi forces killed 1.1 million people in occupied Poland. In Austria and Slovakia, hundreds of Holocaust survivors were offered their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. AdvertisementIsrael, which counts 197,000 survivors of the genocide, officially marks its remembrance day in the spring. Luxembourg signed a deal Wednesday agreeing to pay reparations and to restore dormant bank accounts, insurance policies and looted art to Holocaust survivors. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 27, 2021 15:23 UTC