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#OnThisDay in 1945 Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated by American troops. Between 1937 and 1945 approximately 250,000 people were imprisoned at Buchenwald, over 56,000 of whom were killed. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/41tiMpl

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#OnThisDay in 1994, a plane carrying the then Rwandan President and the then Hutu president of Burundi, was shot down. It remains unclear who shot down the plane, but blame was placed on the Tutsis. Hate speech spread, which encouraged Hutus to wipe out the Tutsis. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/4ke9Z1T

#OnThisDay in 1935, the Nazis issued an order to local authorities to close down the Watchtower Society – criminalising the Jehovah’s Witnesses who lived in Germany at that time. Approximately 1,700 Jehovah’s Witnesses were murdered during the Nazi regime. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/4bbphk5

#OnThisDay in 1933, less than 3 months after Hitler was appointed German Chancellor, the first concentration camp of the Nazi regime was established in the town of Dachau, in Southern Germany. Slave labour, medical experimentation and mass killings all took place at Dachau. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/4idQ4yk

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#OnThisDay in 1943, thousands of Jews in Salonika, Greece, were deported from ghettos to Auschwitz-Birkenau. 19 transportations were completed, carrying 42,830 Jews. 38,386 of the arrivals were immediately murdered upon arrival at Auschwitz. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/4397AQf

#OnThisDay in 1943, the commander of the SS and Police in Kraków, Poland, ordered the ‘liquidation’ of the Kraków Ghetto. Around 2,000 Jews were transported to a labour camp while another 2,000 Jews were murdered in the streets or sent to Auschwitz. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/41fMzjY

#OnThisDay in 2009, an arrest warrant was issued for the then President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, by the International Criminal Court on five charges of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes for his role in the genocide in Darfur. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/3QuAZgf

Sabina Kadić-Mackenzie was born in Bosnia in 1984. In 1992, war forced her family to flee to Slovenia before finally settling in the UK. She now lives in Scotland and is the Vice Chair of @beyondsreb. 🔗 Read more at buff.ly/4ke9Z1T #GenocideSurvivor #HistoryMatters #LessonsFromHistory

#LightTheDarkness was marked across the UK - and beyond - for #HMD2025 on 27 January. Buildings glowed purple from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall and Derry/Londonderry to Essex and even in other countries 🔗 See some of the amazing images at buff.ly/4i1BdYo

#OnThisDay in 1943, the Rosenstrasse Protest began - non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men who’d been arrested by the Gestapo staged a non-violent protest in Rosenstrasse, Berlin. As a result the prisoners were released on 6 March 1943. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/3ETnwfm

#OnThisDay in 1943, the first transport of #Roma and Sinti people from Germany arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is estimated that as many as 23,000 Roma and Sinti were deported to Auschwitz, and that around 20,000 of them were murdered. #OTD 🔗 buff.ly/3XbGNPi

Many black people who lived in Germany under the Nazi regime were persecuted, alienated and murdered. The Nazis viewed them as a threat to the purity of the Germanic race. Nazi propaganda posters showing friendship across racial groups referred to ‘a loss of racial pride.’ 🔗 Learn more at buff.ly/4bdtOlY #HistoryMatters #LessonsFromHistory

Henry Wuga was born on 23 February 1924 in Nuremburg, Germany. Henry escaped Germany on the #Kindertransport when he was 15 years old. He settled and married in Glasgow and dedicated his life to educating people about the Holocaust. 🔗 Learn more about Henry at buff.ly/3X9Atrp #HolocaustSurvivor #HistoryMatters #LessonsFromHistory

The Temple of Peace in Cardiff saw civic, faith and political leaders join communities from across Wales on 27 January to commemorate #HolocaustMemorialDay. During the ceremony @PrifWeinidog read extracts from the diary of Anne Frank. Read more at buff.ly/3ECvfOD #HMD2025

Civic, faith and political leaders joined with communities from across Scotland in the Scottish Parliament on 30 January to mark #HolocaustMemorialDay in a ceremony sponsored by @Jackson_Carlaw and @PFOKane. Read more at buff.ly/4aWsYd4 #HMD2025

Hundreds of people gathered at Belfast City Hall on 23 January to mark #HolocaustMemorialDay. Among those in attendance were First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly. Read more at buff.ly/3QfzD8M #HMD2025

How did you mark #HMD2025? Whether you attended a local #HolocaustMemorialDay activity, watched the ceremony on the BBC or lit a candle for #LightTheDarkness, we'd like to hear about the impact HMD 2025 had on you. Go to buff.ly/418sBZM