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Since 2012, the commemorations of the Remembrance Day in Austria have been held in Vienna at the Heldenpatz. Outside the United Nations, Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations are held in Jerusalem, Israel at Yad Vashem and in Washington, DC at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Victims also died in labor camps such as Buchenwald, which was the largest concentration camp in Germany. Other extermination camps included Chelmno Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Belzec. Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was established in 1942, was the largest extermination camp. The victims were imprisoned in a mixture of concentration camps ranging from extermination camps where approximately 6,000 Jews were gassed to death every day, to labor camps where prisoners were forced into hard labor. The 2017 International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 72 nd anniversary of the day some 7,000 prisoners were liberated from the Auschwitz concentration camp. Before the killings, Poland had a population of about 3,300,000 Jews, and it is believed that about 90% of them were massacred by the Nazi regime. Between 19, millions of lives were claimed and most victims were taken to death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was located in Nazi occupied Poland. The massacre of millions of people by the Nazi regime was a result of Adolf Hitler, who termed it the ‘Final Solution.’ Atrocities perpetrated against the victims were so vile that the horror of the death toll does not diminish with time. However, the resolution came following a special session that was held on January 24 th, 2005 when the United Nations General Assembly was marking the 60 th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust and the abolition of the Nazi concentration camps. International Holocaust Remembrance Day was designated on November 1 st, 2005 by the UN General Assembly. On this day, many people across the world recall the genocide that was carried out by the Nazi regime together with its collaborators, resulting to the death of approximately 6 million Jewish people, 9,000 gay men, 200,000 Romani people, and 250,000 people who were physically and mentally disabled. The memorial day is known as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On January 27th every year, the world commemorates the tragedy that occurred during World War II as a result of the Holocaust.