It is a day of international commemoration that falls on January 27 honoring the calamity of the Holocaust that took place during the Second World War. This day commemorates the genocide that claimed the lives of nearly 9,000 homosexual men, 250,000 physically and mentally disabled people, 200,000 Romas, 3 million ethnic Poles, 5 million Slavs and 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its accomplices.