In 2005, the UN General Assembly established January 27th as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This date refers to the day of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp liberation in 1945 and is an opportunity to commemorate Jewish victims who were murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II.

The Belzec death camp is a place inextricably connected with the extermination of Jews conducted by Nazi Germany under the codename “Aktion Reinhardt.” Extermination camp in Bełżec claimed the lives of approximately 450.000 Jewish women, children, and men.

The Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec join in the annual commemoration of this day.

On January 24, Ewa Koper delivered a lecture called “The role of the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec in the education of young people” during the sixth edition of a conference for teachers and educators organized by The Sub-Carpathian Teacher Education Center, the University of Rzeszów and the Institute of National Remembrance - Branch in Rzeszów.

On January 26, the opening of the exhibition "Every Victim Has a Name" presenting the profiles of Jews murdered in the Nazi German extermination camp in Bełżec, and lecture for young people were held in the Władysław Broniewski Municipal Public Library in Lubaczów.

Today, Tomasz Hanejko, the head of the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec, was a guest on Catholic Radio Zamość. The topic of the conversation was the tragic fate of the victims of the German death camp in Bełżec.

On the same day, online meetings with students from the Military High School in Zamość and from the Tadeusz Kosciuszko High School in Lubaczów took place, during which they were introduced to the history of Holocaust victims deported to the German death camp in Bełżec.

Afterwards, the museum staff lit candles as a sign of remembrance of six million murdered Jews.