International Holocaust Remembrance Day is today, 27 January. It was a day that the United Nations declared should be marked as special in the history of our world. On 27 January 1945 the Nazi-run "camp" at Auschwitz-Birkenau was found and liberated by Allied Forces. The day is scheduled for all free people of the world to commemorate the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated six million Jews, one million Gypsies, two hundred and fifty thousand mentally and physically disabled people, and nine thousand homosexual men by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. This must never happen again in our world.
I call for world in which every single person can worship as they wish, eat as they wish, and learn as they wish, in a healthy and supportive environment. Do not condemn what you do not understand. Strive to be fair and open-minded in all thoughts and actions. Embrace and discover that which is different from your viewpoint. Open your heart and your mind. We need to coexist in peace to heal the woes of this world. Reach out, open your mind, try to understand others' points of view. Be gentle with strangers, with loved ones, and with yourself.
Never allow this
to happen again... Ever.
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