That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.

WGN's Shannon Halligan reports on ceremonies held around on the world on Holocaust Remembrance Day, and how world leaders are honoring those who so bravely risked their lives during one of the darkest times in modern human history.