January 27 marks Holocaust Memorial Day (HRD), an international day of Remembrance paying tribute to people who have perished in the name of evil and hatred across the world.
The annual memorial marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps where millions of Jewish people, political prisoners and those of ethnic minorities were killed or enslaved.
Six million Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War, but HRD is not just about remembering them - it seeks to ensure those killed in subsequent genocides such as Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur are never forgotten.
