{"id":50517,"date":"2012-01-28T02:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T00:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50517"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:06:01","slug":"ataa-remembers-the-victims-of-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/28\/ataa-remembers-the-victims-of-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"ATAA Remembers the Victims of the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50518\" title=\"ATAA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ATAA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ATAA.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ATAA-300x64.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><strong>Today marks the seventh International\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2012\/01\/27\/3091386\/obama-pledges-to-combat-denial-on-holocaust-commemoration-day\">Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/span>, which was established by the United Nations General Assembly to annually honor the six million Jewish men, women and children that were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Jan. 27 holds historical significance because it was the day in 1945 when the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_1327710419194254\" align=\"left\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0On the anniversary of the\u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/museum\/exhibit\/focus\/auschwitz\/\">liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/span>, we remember the victims of the Holocaust. On this day we remember the 1.3 million people of Jewish heritage as well as Poles, Roma and Sinti, Soviet prisoners, and people of diverse nationalities and lifestyles who were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0During the Holocaust,\u00a0Turkish Diplomats in Europe saved\u00a0an estimated 75,000 Jews from extermination. Turkey served as a bridge between Jews and the organizations that wanted to help Jews. About 100,000 Jews fled from Europe to Palestine via Turkey. Turkey was one of the first countries to recognize Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0ATAA commends Turkish state television channels, TRT and TRT-Int, for airing a nine-part documentary on the Holocaust. TRT broadcasts in Turkish, Azeri, Arabic, Kurdish and other languages, and reaches over 200 million viewers from France and Germany to Kyrgyzstan, from Eurasia and the Balkans to the Arabian Peninsula.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2012\/01\/27\/3091386\/obama-pledges-to-combat-denial-on-holocaust-commemoration-day\"><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/museum\/exhibit\/focus\/auschwitz\/\"><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the seventh International\u00a0Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was established by the United Nations General Assembly to annually honor the six million Jewish men, women and children that were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Jan. 27 holds historical significance because it was the day in 1945 when the Soviet Red Army liberated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2630,240,7899,7898,80,7897,7896],"class_list":["post-50517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-ataa","tag-holocaust","tag-holocaust-remembrance-day","tag-liberation-of-auschwitz-birkenau","tag-trt","tag-turkish-diplomats-in-europe","tag-turkish-state-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}