He said the international commemoration day, created by the United Nations in 2005, is important to ensure the world remembers the Holocaust long after the survivors and their forbears are gone.

It was unbelievable,” said Andrew Roth, 97, who remembers the day he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp with complete clarity.

On Sunday, June 22, the sun bore down over the granite tablets of Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay as community members, survivors and public officials gathered for the 40th Annual Holocaust ...