The "Day of Remembrance", established in Italy by Law 211 of 20 July 2000, is celebrated to commemorate 27 January 1945, the day on which the Soviet army entered the Auschwitz concentration camp, discovering and revealing its horror to the world.
It is celebrated to remember the Shoah, the extermination of the Jewish people, the racial laws, the Italian persecution of Jewish citizens, the Italians deported to concentration camps, imprisonment, death, as well as those who, even in different camps and groups, opposed the extermination project, and at the risk of their own lives saved other lives and protected the persecuted (as stated in Article 1 of the law).
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