{"id":15025,"date":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voiceofsalam.com\/?p=24471"},"modified":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","slug":"this-holocaust-memorial-day-we-need-to-stand-together-against-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/28\/this-holocaust-memorial-day-we-need-to-stand-together-against-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"This Holocaust Memorial Day, we need to stand together against antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By Elizabeth Arif-Fear<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Every year, on 27th<\/sup> January, the world commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remembering the horrors of the past is essential in order to ensure we stop such tragic events from repeating themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This date is particularly poignant as it marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/strong><\/a> concentration camp, where at least 1.1 people were murdered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout the Holocaust, Jews, Roma, members of the LGBT+ community, political prisoners, disabled individuals \u2013 the \u201cunwanted\u201d of the Nazi regime \u2013 were brutally and systematically killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Within the Jewish community, six million were murdered<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 simply for being Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n