The Office of Governor Pete Ricketts announced an executive order declaring January 27th of each year as Holocaust Remembrance Day in Nebraska. When the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, it coordinated a widespread persecution of Jewish people, which intensified into an all-out genocide. By the end of World War II in 1945, six million Jewish men, women, and children had been murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices. January 27th marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. “The evil and depravity of the crimes against humanity committed during the...