Base observes Holocaust Days of Remembrance Published April 25, 2007 By Sheila Rupp Nucleus Journalist KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, New Mexico -- By the end of World War II, 6 million European Jews were dead - more than 1 million of them were children, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Holocaust Days of Remembrance were observed here April 16-23 in the Mini-mall exchange with a poster exhibit. Congress established Holocaust Days of Remembrance as the nation's annual commemoration of victims of the Holocaust. The USHMM designated this year's theme of the Days of Remembrance as "Children in Crisis: Voices from the Holocaust." The exhibit will feature a series of posters with photographs from pre-World War II, during the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors. The exhibit will also feature a chronology of events, information pamphlets and movies from the Equal Employment Office will be available for viewing. The Kirtland Chiefs Group is hosting the exhibit this year. Though the Nazis primarily targeted the Jews for persecution, Gypsies, people with disabilities, homosexuals, communists, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses and some Slavic peoples were also targeted under the Nazis regime. By the end of World War II, two out of every three Jews had been murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the massive crime now called the Holocaust. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities using poison gas. At the largest killing center, Auschwitz-Birkenau, transports of Jews arrived almost daily from across Europe. (Information from www.vshmm.org was used in this article.)