The day is meant for people to remember the millions of Jewish people, and people from other backgrounds, who were killed by the Nazis during WWII.

Exactly 80 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the remaining 7,000 prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The largest of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz saw the murder of 1.1 million ...

In Jewish tradition, zachor, the command to remember, is not passive; it is active, communal and transformative.

This Remembrance Day marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Mensch Foundation founder Steven Geiger says this year's event is especially meaningful in light of recent anti-semitism.

“One is today, and that is for people of all backgrounds to do sort of that commemoration and then in April there is Yom HaShoah, which is the Jewish day of remembrance for the Holocaust ...