During World War II, the Holocaust claimed the lives of over 6 million Jews and countless others in what was the most systematic massacre of entire populations in history. Today, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrates the efforts of the many unsung heroes and nameless victims who became a part of the world-changing event.
First-hand accounts of men like Harry Greenbaum, survivor of three different camps, and Emmanuel Grossman, one of the first US soldiers to liberate the concentration camps, is very vital. Their stories provide the present generation of the horrors of war and how mistaken ideology could lead to meaningless slaughter.
With the celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, people throughout the world recall both the heroism and the tremendous suffering that innocent people went through at the hands of other human beings.
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