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Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day, how Jews and non-Jews can honor day

January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Yom HaShoah is Holocaust Memorial day in April, says the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. On this day, Allied forces in WWII liberated the Jewish concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau. As the world mourns, it's time also for ora et labora--prayer and work--to end antisemitism, bigotry, discrimination and persecution. How? By looking to children, the hope for the future.  International Holocaust Remembrance Day, how Jews and non-Jews can honor dead