Holocaust memorial days
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Use dmy dates A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its allies. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration. In 2005, the United Nations instituted an international observance, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Many observances fall on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, while other countries selected separate dates, often to mark anniversaries of national events during the Holocaust. Holocaust remembrance days often include efforts to combat hatred and antisemitism.
In February 2025, Google announced that Holocaust Remembrance Days would no longer be highlighted by default on Google Calendar, arguing that it was no longer "scalable or sustainable" to continue adding the growing number of national and international "cultural moments" manually to its calendars.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
List of observances
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| United Nations | 27 January | International Holocaust Remembrance Day | Designated by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005.<ref>Holocaust remembrance at www.UN.org.</ref> | |||||
| Azerbaijan | 27 January | Day of the Tragedy and Heroism of the Jews | ||||||
| Australia | 27 January<ref>Australia marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day</ref> | International Holocaust Remembrance Day | ||||||
| Austria | 5 May | Memorial Day against Violence and Racism in Memory on the Victims of National Socialism Template:Langx |
The day that the concentration camp Mauthausen was liberated in 1945. | |||||
| Belgium | 27 January | International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Template:Langx |
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 27 January | International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust | ||||||
| Bulgaria | 10 March | Holocaust Remembrance Day and the "Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jews and of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity" | The day of the revocation of the plan to expel the country's Jewish population, officially designated in 2003.<ref>Bulgaria marks its Holocaust Remembrance day, The Sofia Echo, March 10, 2011 (retrieved October 10, 2013)</ref> | |||||
| Canada | 27 Nisan (April/May) | All ten Canadian provinces of Alberta (2000),<ref>Documents: Acts at www.qp.Alberta.ca</ref> British Columbia (2000),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Croatia | 27 January | Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity | ||||||
| Czech Republic | 27 January | Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Template:Langx |
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| Denmark | 27 January | Auschwitz Day of Holocaust and Genocide Remembrance | ||||||
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| Finland | 27 January | Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust (Vainojen uhrien muistopäivä) | ||||||
| France | 16 July | Anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup Template:Langx. |
Remembrance marking the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews in Paris in 1942 and their extermination at Auschwitz. | |||||
| Germany | 27 January | Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism | Template:Langx | |||||
| Greece | 27 January | National Holocaust Memorial Day Template:Langx (Ethniki Imera Mnimis Olokaftomatos) |
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| Hungary | 16 April | Holocaust Memorial Day | Since 2001.<ref>Megemlékezés a holokauszt magyarországi áldozatairól - April 16, 2020 - Magyar Nemzet, MTI</ref> | |||||
| Ireland | Sunday closest to 27 January | National Holocaust Memorial Day | ||||||
| Israel (and many Jewish communities in other countries) | 27 Nisan (April/May) | Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day), or Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day) | Both an Israeli day of remembrance and a day of remembrance observed by many Jewish communities in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
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| Italy | 27 January | Memorial Day | Template:Langx | |||||
| Latvia | 4 July | Commemoration Day of the Victims of the Genocide Against the Jewish People
Ebreju tautas genocīda upuru piemiņas diena |
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| Lithuania | 23 September | Day of the Genocide of Lithuania's Jews Lietuvos žydų genocido diena |
Anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto in 1943. | |||||
| Luxembourg | 27 January | Holocaust Memorial Day | ||||||
| Netherlands | last Sunday of January | National Holocaust Remembrance | Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945. | |||||
| North Macedonia | 27 January | |||||||
| Norway | 27 January | Holocaust Memorial Day | ||||||
| Poland | 27 January | International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Portugal | 27 January | Holocaust Remembrance Day | ||||||
| Romania | 9 October | National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust Template:Langx |
Beginning of deportations of Romanian Jews to Transnistria Governorate in 1941. | |||||
| Serbia | 22 April | Holocaust Remembrance Day Dan sećanja na žrtve holokausta |
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| Slovakia | 9 September | Holocaust Victims and Racial Hatred Day | On 9 September 1941, Slovakia passed anti-Jewish laws based on the Nuremberg laws.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |||||
| Slovenia | 27 January | National Holocaust Remembrance Day | ||||||
| Spain | 27 January | Day for Holocaust Remembrance and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Día Oficial de la Memoria del Holocausto y la Prevención de los Crímenes contra la Humanidad |
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| Sweden | 27 January | Holocaust Remembrance Day Förintelsens minnesdag |
A national remembrance day every year since 1999. | |||||
| Switzerland | 27 January | International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust | ||||||
| Taiwan (Republic of China) | 27 January 25 February |
Holocaust Memorial Day (大屠殺陣亡將士紀念日) (Dà túshā zhènwáng jiàngshì jìniàn rì) |
In addition to the European events, the ROC/Taiwan also honors the victims of the February 28 incident.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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| Ukraine | 27 January | Holocaust Memorial Day | Since 2020.<ref>For First Time, Ukrainian Parliament Marks int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day</ref> | |||||
| United Kingdom | 27 January | Holocaust Memorial Day | First held in January 2001 and on the same date every year since. | |||||
| United States | 8-day period, from the Sunday before Yom Hashoah to the Sunday after Yom Hashoah | Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (DRVH) | Established by Congress in 1979 as the period for remembrance programs and ceremonies. |
Template:As of, twelve countries observed January 27, the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, including Germany, Britain, Italy and Scandinavian countries. In 2003 France designated this date as the day of remembrance of genocides and prevention of crimes against humanity.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2004 Israel designated this date as a mark of the struggle against antisemitism.
Template:As of, eleven countries in Europe had chosen dates related to local histories.
Commemorations and memorials
- In January 2020, a ceremony was held at Auschwitz to mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation on January 27, 1945.<ref>Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust, BBC, JAn 23, 2020.</ref> this included speeches by numerous officials and Jewish communal leaders. Large number of Holocaust survivors attended this ceremony.<ref>Auschwitz 75 years on: Holocaust Day prompts new anti-Semitism warnings. Holocaust survivors and international leaders are honouring victims of the Nazis at the former Auschwitz death camp, amid calls to fight resurgent anti-Semitism. The presidents of Israel and Poland - Reuven Rivlin and Andrzej Duda - laid wreaths together, 75 years after Soviet troops liberated the camp. BBC, January 27, 2020.</ref><ref>Auschwitz 75th anniversary ceremony. Events are being held to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. BBC, Jan 27, 2020.</ref> In the United Kingdom, government officials, religious leaders and community leaders gathered in London to commemorate this anniversary.<ref>Leaders and royals gather for UK Holocaust Memorial Day event. Senior royals, faith and political leaders are gathering in Westminster to commemorate International Holocaust Memorial Day.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are joining Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the event, which comes 75 years after Auschwitz was liberated. The duke will give a reading and the couple will speak to survivors of the Holocaust and more recent genocides. BBC, Jan 27, 2020.</ref> On the same date, German police reported they were investigating the sales of a brand of beer with Nazi-style symbols on its labeling.<ref>German police probe Nazi-style beer brand, BBC, Jan 27, 2020.</ref>
- In 2021 a number of Jewish organizations in the United Kingdom incorporated the situation in Xinjiang into their Holocaust Memorial Day remembrances and commemorations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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See also
- United Nations Holocaust Memorial
- List of Holocaust memorials and museums
- Roma Holocaust Memorial Day