Remember, and act It seems somewhat quirky if not actually
surreal that the United Nations has implemented a day to
remember the Holocaust. For, more than any other international
organization, the UN – through its various agencies, commissions
and bodies – has been the single most voluble source and the
highest profile bully pulpit of Holocaust denial among some of
its members as well as calumny, invective, lies and vilification
about the Jewish state and the Jewish People. And yet, since
2006, at the initiative of the UN, Jan. 27 has been set aside as
the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims
of the Holocaust. The date Jan. 27 was selected because it was
on that day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-
Birkenau. How cruelly, cynically ironic, therefore, that those
very Soviets who threw open the iron gates of Auschwitz locked
behind the iron gates of their infamous Gulag Raoul Wallenberg,
the Swedish diplomat in Hungary during World War II, whose
goodness and courage saved som