The choice of date remembers January 27, 1945 when the Soviet Red Army troops during the offensive in the direction of Berlin, arrived at the Polish town of Oswiecim (known as the German Auschwitz), revealing her infamous concentration camp, freeing the few survivors. The discovery of Auschwitz and the testimonies of survivors revealed fully for the first time in the world the horror of the Nazi genocide.
On January 27, the memory of the Shoah, the extermination of the people that jew, is also celebrated by many other nations, including Germany and Britain, as well as the UN, following Resolution 60 / 7 of 1 November 2005 . (Vidia)
In fact, the Soviets had already arrived earlier to leave the camps, Chelmno and Belzec, but these fields more commonly known as "annihilation" were veritable factories of death where the prisoners were immediately deported and gassed, saving only a few "Sonderkommando".
However, the opening of the gates to Auschwitz, where 10-15 days before the Nazis were withdrawn, bringing with them tumbling into a "death march" all prisoners with disabilities, many of whom died during the march itself, showed the world not only many witnesses of the tragedy, but also the instruments of torture and destruction of the camp (although it must be said that two of the Birkenau crematoria located in I and II were destroyed in the fall of 1944).
In Italy are officially more than 400 people honored, receiving the title of Righteous Among the Nations for their efforts in favor of Jews persecuted during the Holocaust.
Holocaust Remembrance Day. It 's a feast instituted by Law No 211, July 20, 2000 by the Italian Parliament has thus joined the international proposal to declare January 27 as a day commemorating the victims of National Socialism (Nazism) and fascism, the Holocaust and in honor of those at risk of their life protected the persecuted.
The text of Article 1 of the Law defines the purpose of Memorial Day:
"The Italian Republic recognizes the 27th day of January, date of the gates of Auschwitz," Day of Remembrance "to remember the Shoah (extermination of the Jewish people), the racial laws, the persecution of Italian citizens Jews, Italians who suffered deportation, imprisonment, death, and those who, even in different fields and camps, have opposed the project of extermination, and at the risk of their lives they have saved more lives and protected the persecuted. "
SOURCE WIKIPEDIA
