'To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.' Elie Wiesel. Buried below the panel are interred soil and ash from six killing-center camps of the Holocaust - Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Every year around 27 January, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and reaffirms its unwavering commitment to counter antisemitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that may lead to group-targeted violence. Saturday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. At the end of the wall is the soil vault panel. A European-style, cobblestone walkway with inlaid granite bars, simulating railroad tracks, leads to a wall of history panels - giant, stone placards that offer a brief history of the Holocaust and quotes from Holocaust survivors. The Holocaust Remembrance Association is a non-profit organization that was founded to establish and sustain a living memorial to the victims of the. The square contains scattered bronzes of shoes, glasses, a suitcase, and other items to represent everyday objects that were left behind. During the Holocaust, many Jewish families were gathered in town squares before being loaded onto trains and taken to concentration camps. January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The bench sits behind a circular, cobblestoned area - simulating a town square. The Holocaust profoundly affected countries in which Nazi crimes were perpetrated, with universal implications and consequences in many other parts of the world. The memorial features a stone bench adorned with wrought-iron gating, screened from the street by rhododendron bushes. The Holocaust memorial ceremony was organized jointly by the United Nations Department of Global Communications and UNESCO, in cooperation with the International Holocaust Remembrance. The Oregon Holocaust Memorial was dedicated on August 29, 2004.
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