Misawa Airmen honor Holocaust victims

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Janaya Bryant, 35th Fighter Wing executive assistant to the command chief, prepares to read names of Holocaust victims during a ceremony in the base chapel at Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 13, 2015. Volunteers read the names of victims over a span of six hours as a way to pay respect to those persecuted and massacred between 1933 and 1945 by the Nazi regime. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jordyn Fetter/Released)

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Misawa Airmen honor Holocaust victims

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Janaya Bryant, 35th Fighter Wing executive assistant to the command chief, lights a candle during a Holocaust remembrance candlelight vigil at the base chapel at Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 13, 2015. Various framed biographies were placed in the chapel describing the lives of survivors and victims of the Holocaust. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jordyn Fetter/Released)

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Misawa Airmen honor Holocaust victims

Informational posters about the Holocaust are displayed at the front of the base chapel at Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 13, 2015. Among the information included on the posters were facts, pictures and timelines about anti-Jewish Laws, the Nuremberg Laws and concentration camps. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jordyn Fetter/Released)

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Misawa Airmen honor Holocaust victims

Members of the 35th Fighter Wing gather to watch “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” at Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 15, 2015. The film was shown to honor the 11 million Holocaust victims during Holocaust Remembrance Week. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jordyn Fetter/Released)

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Misawa Airmen honor Holocaust victims

Members of the 35th Fighter Wing participate in a Holocaust Remembrance Run at Misawa Air Base, Japan, April 17, 2015. Airmen participated in this event as a way to show their respect for those killed in the Holocaust massacre. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jordyn Fetter/Released)

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Misawa Airmen honor Holocaust victims

Published April 17, 2015
By Airman 1st Class Jordyn Fetter
35th Fighter Wing Public Affairs

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- Misawa Airmen participated in a series of events held in support of Holocaust Remembrance week April 11-17. The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews and five million non-Jewish victims by the Nazi regime. The Nazis believed Germans were "racially superior" to the Jews, who were deemed an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. As a result of this discriminatory belief, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison its many millions of victims between 1933 and 1945. In order to show respect and to honor the victims of this tragedy, Holocaust Remembrance Day was established as the annual commemoration of the Holocaust in the U.S. The Week of Remembrance is held in conjunction with this annual memorial.