5 days ago · We commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations to mark the anniversary of the January 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp. We solemnly remember the six million Jews who were systematically murdered across Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators, as …

3 days ago · Holocaust Remembrance Day marked at Auschwitz by survivors Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of ...

5 days ago · At its heart, Holocaust Remembrance Day represents the international community’s continuing commitment to ensuring the dignity and human rights of all minorities within the borders of every State.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one-third of the Jewish people along with countless numbers of individuals of other minority groups, by ...

Jan 21, 2025 · International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day designated by the United Nations to mark the anniversary of the January 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp.

Read names in the Hall of Remembrance from 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (use your own list or one provided for you). You may also listen to others read names or light a memorial candle. ... Watch a program recorded during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2023 with Auschwitz survivor Irene Weiss. She discovered decades after the Holocaust that ...

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution.

The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah.

The commemorations on January 27 remind us that the Holocaust was the result of step-by-step decisions by individuals that led to the largest genocide in the history of mankind in a wave of antisemitism, intolerance, and hatred.

On November 1, 2005, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 60/7 to designate January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). The date marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and is meant to honor the victims of Nazism.