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Friday January 12, 1996

German Jews praise remembrance day

BERLIN (JTA) -- The Jewish community in Germany has welcomed the establishment of Jan. 27 as a national day of remembrance for t
The day was chosen to mark the Jan. 27, 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.

Herzog also said that in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, Germans commemorated "millions of people who were deprived of their rights, persecuted, tortured and murdered" by the Nazi regime of "racial mania and genocide."

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