Holocaust Memorial Days

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis lays a wreath during a ceremony at the Holocaust memorial in the Greek capital to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was marked in Serbia with a central state ceremony held at the Staro Sajmiste memorial in Belgrade.

Power wielders are attempting to rewrite history, but Serbia must not let that happen, President Tomislav Nikolic as he addressed the ceremony.

The anti-fascist association in the town of Sibenik will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with a reading of Anne Frank’s diary after a local school director barred an exhibition about the WWII diarist.

January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the date the United Nations chose to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust during World War II.

The anniversary, which is marked each year since 2005, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland by the Russian army in 1945.

Turkey has voiced resolve in continuing its fight against anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia in a message to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This week, Jan. 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz exterminatiom camp by Soviet soldiers. It was also a historic day for Turkey since for the first time its capital, Ankara, hosted a Holocaust commemoration ceremony.

"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Tuesday at a commemoration ceremony marking January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, that the Holocaust is the most shameful and hideous crime in entire human history, underscoring that Serbia will never forget the crimes that were committed against its own citizens and the friendly Jewish people.

President: Holocaust most shameful crime in history

BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said on Tuesday that the Holocaust was the most shameful and hideous crime in the entire human history.

President Rosen Plevneliev has spoken to a multitude of heads of state and other high-profile politicians attending an international forum marking the 70th Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The event, titled "Let My People Live!", commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945.