2025 Holocaust Day of Remembrance

Jewish women, selected for forced labor at Auschwitz-Birkenau, march toward their barracks after disinfection and head shaving. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yad Vashem

2025 marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust. 

Eighty years ago, in response to the atrocities of the war and the Holocaust, governments of the world established the United Nations, pledging to work together to build a just world where human rights were enshrined, and all could live with dignity, in peace.

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

As we mark the 80th anniversary of that liberation, we are witnessing a global surge in antisemitism. This year’s remembrance is a bulwark against the denigration of humanity, and a call for collective action.

It is up to all of us, together, to ensure respect for dignity and human rights, and the international law that protects both. 

As the UN writes on this day of remembrance,

Holocaust remembrance safeguards the memories of survivors and their testament of life before the Holocaust – of vibrant communities, of traditions, of hopes and dreams, of loved ones who did not survive. Safeguarding the history brings dignity to those the Nazis and their collaborators sought to destroy.

Remembrance of the Holocaust is a victory against the Nazis and their collaborators, and against all who would try to continue their legacy through spreading hatred, Holocaust distortion and denial into the 21st century. 

It is up to us to stand together against hate. Join us.