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.

On 27 January 2025, we commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The main commemoration began at 4.00 pm in a special tent that will be built over the gate to the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp.

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 ...

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.

Jan 27, 2025 · BERLIN — World leaders and dozens of Holocaust survivors gathered Monday at the former site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its liberation...

Jan 25, 2022 · Seventy-seven years ago today, the largest concentration and death camp in Europe, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. By then, more than six million Jews and millions more people – including Roma and Sinti, Slavs, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals – had been killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.

Updated January 29, 2025. January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed annually on the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Jan 27, 2025 · On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, premiers, monarchs, heads of state and other high-ranking dignitaries from 54 countries have gathered to observe the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi-run Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, when nations join together to promote awareness of the Holocaust and its lessons for preventing future genocides. On this day in 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Listen to survivor testimonies.

Jan 26, 2025 · 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.