LITHUANIAN AMBASSADOR IN WASHINGTON PAYS TRIBUTE TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS
On 27 January, Lithuanian Ambassador to the U.S.A. Žygimantas Pavilionis commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Ž.Pavilionis reminded to Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Sarah J. Bloomfield and the State Department’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism Hannah S. Rosenthal that Lithuania’s Seimas (Parliament) had declared 2011 as Year of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania.
During the event, the Ambassador and Holocaust survivors lit candles in memory of the victims.The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was first commemorated in 2005, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Holocaust remembrance and called for the designation of 27 January as an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On the 27th of January 1945 the Auschwitz death camp in Poland was liberated. In Auschwitz, the Nazis killed 1.5 million people, nearly 1.1 million of them were Jews.
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