Holocaust Memorial Day: World remembers six million Jewish people murdered by Nazis | ITV News

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Landmarks across the UK have been lit up purple and candles were lit in homes to remember more than six million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis in the Second World War.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 falls on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious death camp where Nazi Germany carried out its Final Solution seeking to murder the Jewish people in Europe.

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