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Source: http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=255355
Two Remembrance Days
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Shefler - The UN designated Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005. Israel, however, observes Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 26th of Nissan, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, according to the Jewish calendar. Its selection reflects the Jewish state's preference to emphasize Jewish resistance to the Nazis.