{"id":2470,"date":"2012-01-27T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/27\/today-international-holocaust-remembrance-day\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:38:41","slug":"today-international-holocaust-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/27\/today-international-holocaust-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: International Holocaust Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/holocaustremembrance\/2012\/sg.shtml'>Today: International Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><strong>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/museum\/exhibit\/focus\/ihrd\/comment_post.php\" target=\"_blank\">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum<\/a> website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In 2005 the UN General Assembly designated January 27\u2014the anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/museum\/exhibit\/focus\/auschwitz\/\" target=\"_blank\">liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/a>\u2014as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, every member state of the UN has an obligation to honor the victims of the Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This year\u2019s theme is <em>Children and the Holocaust<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/holocaustremembrance\/2012\/sg.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Watch or read Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon\u2019s remarks<\/a> on the 1.5 million Jewish children and the tens of thousands of other youths who died during the Holocaust.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today: International Holocaust Remembrance Day From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website: &ldquo;In 2005 the UN General Assembly designated January 27\u2014the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau\u2014as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, every member state of the UN has an obligation to honor the victims of the Nazi era and to develop educational programs to help prevent future&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1243,1244],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-holocaust-remembrance","tag-united-nations","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}