International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of
the Holocaust. It commemorates the
genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and 9,000 homosexual men by the
Nazi regime and its collaborators. It was designated by the
United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session. The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January 2005 during which the
United Nations General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the
Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust.