It is an international memorial day that falls on the 27^th of January honoring the calamity of the Holocaust that happened during World War II. It honors the genocide that proceeded in the death of nearly 9,000 homosexual men, 250,000 physically and mentally disabled people, 200,000 Romani people, 3 million ethnic Poles, 5 million Slavs and 6 million Jewish people by the Nazi and its accomplices.