January 27 was designated by the UN as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day to commemorate the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust. During World War II, the Nazi regime systematically and brutally annihilated, in cold blood, six million Jews, including one million children, together with another five million people of other "unwanted" groups.
Alongside the suffering and horror, there is another side to the story of the Holocaust. Stories of remarkable acts of heroism and bravery. Stories of people that risked their own lives to save Jews from certain death; people that hid Jewish neighbours in their homes, families that took in Jewish children and raised them as their own, diplomats that acted against the orders of their own governments, and issued travel documents to Jews, and of course, Jewish resistance.
