Although the systematic annihilation of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe began with the outbreak of war in September 1939 (in Germany, it began with the “Night of Broken Glass” pogrom in November 1938), primarily through mass shootings carried out by the“Einsatzgruppen”(execution squads), the invasion of territories under Soviet control, given the large number of Jews living there, necessitated the creation of a more systematic and efficient method of extermination to achieve the goal of wiping out the Jews. This conference is evidence of the uniqueness of the Shoah, in that it was there that the extermination of all the world’s Jews was planned, as they gradually came within the Third Reich’s reach.
Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the design and operation of the extermination camps, which—along with the more than one million murdered by the Einsatzgruppen and those who died due to the living conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps—killed 6,000,000 Jews over the next three years.
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the largest of these camps: Auschwitz–Birkenau, marking the beginning of the end of this barbarity. The United Nations has designated this date as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The Permanent Commission of our country’s Legislative Branch, in compliance with this UN resolution, holds an annual Tribute Session, which took place on January 27 at the Legislative Palace.
Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the design and operation of the extermination camps, which—along with the more than one million murdered by the Einsatzgruppen and those who died due to the living conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps—killed 6,000,000 Jews over the next three years.
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the largest of these camps: Auschwitz–Birkenau, marking the beginning of the end of this barbarity. The United Nations has designated this date as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. The Permanent Commission of our country’s Legislative Branch, in compliance with this UN resolution, holds an annual Tribute Session, which took place on January 27 at the Legislative Palace.