Commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in New Orleans The couple met after World War II when Vera was searching for her brother after liberation. Misha had lost his wife and all other close family. Vera had lost her husband, daughter and father. She and her mother were reunited with her brother. (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) By Nicondra Norwood | January 27, 2021 at 2:25 PM CST - Updated January 27 at 2:25 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The United Nations declared January 27th International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.
Set on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 the day is meant as a time to memorialize the 6 million Jews and 11 million others killed in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.