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YEREVAN. – The Jewish community of Armenia on Monday marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Members of the community and representatives of other organizations laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of Armenian Genocide and Holocaust installed in the center of Yerevan.

Another event will be held together with Israel’s Embassy in Armenia at 6:30p.m. on February 4 in the Chamber Music Hall, head of the community Rimma Varzhapetyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked all over the globe on January 27 when in 1945, the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by Soviet troops. The Holocaust resulted in annihilation of 6 million Jews.

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