** Holocaust Memorial Day ( United Kingdom )

** International Holocaust Remembrance Day ( International )

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** In Washington, DC, the Holocaust Memorial Museum is dedicated.

** The so-called " Big Three " banks in Switzerland announced the creation of a $ 71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.

** The Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

** The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.

** The Holocaust: The evacuation of Auschwitz concentration camp begins.

** Holocaust: By order of the Vichy France government headed by Pierre Laval, French police officers round-up 13, 000 – 20, 000 Jews and imprison them in the Winter Velodrome.

** Holocaust: In Warsaw, 2 women, Zofia Kossak and Wanda Filipowicz, risk their lives by setting up the Council for the Assistance of the Jews.

** Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

** Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

** Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin ( commonly known as " Majdanek ") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin.

** Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem.

** Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor ( d. 1996 )

** Holocaust: The Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied Poland near the town of Oświęcim.

** Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character / narrator of Maus ( a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust ) ( b. 1906 )

** Martin Niemöller, prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust ( d. 1984 )

** Holocaust – NBC

** Resolution 61 / 255: Condemned without any reservation any denial of the Holocaust

** operating the International School for Holocaust Studies ;

** developing age-appropriate study programs, curricula and educational materials for both Israeli and foreign schools, in order to teach students of all ages about the Holocaust

** holding exhibitions about the Holocaust ; and

** teaching about the Holocaust to the general public.

** Susan McClary's constructions of subjectivity in Franz Schubert's music –

** Salomon Lefmann, Franz Bopp ( Berlin, 1891 – 1897 )

** Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Austrian wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel ( b. 1879 )

** Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist

** Franz von Hipper, German admiral ( d. 1932 )

** Franz Biebl, German composer ( d. 2001 )

** The Order of the Garter is conferred on Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

** Franz Jonas, Austrian president ( b. 1899 )

** Frederick William Franz, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 4th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society ( b. 1893 )

** Franz Vranitzky, former Chancellor of Austria

** Franz Josef Strauß, the West German defense minister, is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel scandal, due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.

** Franz Kline, American painter ( b. 1910 )

** Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka, is sentenced to life imprisonment.

** Franz Jonas is re-elected as chancellor of Austria.

** Brazilian police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps.

** Franz Waxman, German-American composer ( b. 1906 )

** Franz Joseph II, 14th Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein ( b. 1906 )

** Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman ( b. 1330 )

** Franz Krienbühl, Swiss speed skater ( b. 1929 )

** Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman ( d. 1387 )

** Berthold Franz Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( b. Riedlingen, 26 May 1963 ), married to María Jesus Alejandra Carabias ( b. 17 July 1961 ), and had one son:

** Marie d ' Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner, 70

** James Mallinson ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ), Philip Langridge, Franz Mazura & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Schoenberg: Moses und Aron

** Biographical sketch by Karl Bartsch in Franz Pfeiffer, ed., Uhlands Briefwechsel mit Freiherrn von Lassberg ( 1870 )