Part VI. National Memorial
National Memorial Day Introduction China designated Dec. 13 as the National Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre Victims by law, showing its respect for history, its answer to the will and request of the public, and its good wish for maintaining peace. We have to remember firmly the terrible history of the Nanjing Massacre, exert ourselves and study hard for the achievement of the Chinese dream of rejuvenation and the maintaining of world peace.
The Wall of Disaster, "Victims three hundred thousand" is engraved on the black granite wall in 12 different languages.
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International memorial days International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Background: The former Soviet army liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp -- the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland, where more than one million people were killed during the World War II.
Purpose: In 2005, it was decided to designate Jan. 27 as the "International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust" at the 60th UN General Assembly. It is to remember the victims of the Holocaust, to oppose any actions denying the fact of the Nazi Holocaust and to ask all countries to tell their next generation about the Holocaust. Poland, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries designated this day as their national mourning day.
Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day
Background: 6 million Jewish people were killed by the Nazi during the World War II.
Purpose: Israel held memorial activities for the first time in 1951. The 27th of the month of Nisan in the Jewish calendar (between April and May) was legally made in 1959. The Holocaust Remembrance Day is to remember the Jewish killed and the Jewish heroes who bravely fought against the Nazis.
Official activity: national mourning for the victims, flag flown at half-mast, memorial activities reported by all television and radio channels.
