International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017

27 January 2017. A day like many others. Just something more: Remembrance. Since 2006 this day is linked to a specific event; an event that more than seventy years ago put an end to a dark period in which inhumanity, brutality, prejudice and hatred for diversity brought about many innocent victims.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the end of these episodes, the unveiling of the Nazi horrors in the concentration camps, the arrival of the first Soviet tanks at the gates of Auschwitz, where many, too many people had died.

It’s a symbolic date to remember all the victims of persecution and the forgotten of this horror: the elderly, disabled persons, children, men and women ...

This year, among other events organized in Trentino by libraries, institutions and associations, a theatrical show will let us learn this tragedy through the eyes of women who were interned in the concentration camp of Ravensbrück. It was only for women: more than 130,000.

The goal of Remembrance is not just to remember, but to educate to respect for others.

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