

Holocaust Remembrance Day
Every year, on 27 January, Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated, an anniversary instituted in 2005 by the United Nations in memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The date was chosen to remember the day on which, in 1945, the Russian Army troops freed the Auschwitz concentration camp as they advanced towards Germany. In Italy, Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated in places connected to the deportation of Jewish people, such as Platform 21 at Milan Central station or at La Casa della Memoria e della Storia in Rome. (Photo: Getty Images)