Last month, the world would see the 20th anniversary of the U.N. officially designating Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

This was done to ensure that the world would remember the Holocaust and use that history to work and prevent future acts of genocide by continually educating and reflecting on the dangers of hatred, antisemitism and all forms of discrimination.

Jan. 27, 1945, was the day Soviet forces would liberate the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp that had been created in Nazi-occupied Poland, and was the war’s largest Nazi death camp, where over 1.1 million people were murdered.

It should also be remembered that while the Jewish people unquestionably bore the lion’s share of the Nazi atrocities that are felt even today, and will be for generations to come, many others would also be victims to their hatred. By the late 1930s, identified mixed-race children were forcibly sterilized, and people of color were excluded from holding jobs or attending universities. Those who were noticeably disabled, be it physically or mentally, or just perceived to have disabilities, were subjected to forced sterilization, and by the end of the regime, estimates close to 250,000........

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