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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

A person walks outside BBC headquarters in London, November 10, 2025. (AP/Kin Cheung)
January 28, 2026, 1:10 pm
BBC fails to mention Jews in some Holocaust Remembrance Day coverage, sparking outrage
British national broadcaster apologizes after anchors say ‘six million people’ killed, report doesn’t mention Jews, antisemitism; Holocaust Educational Trust: ‘Abuse of the memory’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) speaks at the Babyn Yar ravine near Kyiv, the site of a Nazi massacre during the Holocaust, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2026. (Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine)
January 27, 2026, 10:56 pm
Zelensky, flanked by Ukrainian rabbis, marks Holocaust Remembrance Day at Babyn Yar
Ukraine’s Jewish leader says rising antisemitism must be confronted, at site where Nazis and collaborators murdered 33,771 Jews over two days in 1941
By Lazar Berman
Candles placed in front of a concrete slab of the Holocaust memorial to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day in Berlin, Germany, January 27, 2026. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
January 27, 2026, 1:20 pm
Ceremonies held worldwide to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Former prisoners lay flowers and wreaths at the Execution Wall in former Auschwitz camp, candles lit at Berlin memorial, commemorations planned across Europe
By Vanessa Gera
Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, November 3, 2025. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
January 27, 2026, 11:28 am
Despite boycott, High Court chief says he still extends a hand to Justice Minister Levin
In a rare interview on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Isaac Amit vows legal system will ‘continue on our path’ despite attempts to weaken it
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Holocaust survivor Ilana Shalem-Kantorowics, born in the Nazi Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, holds a photo of her with her mother Lola taken in the Bergen-Belsen refugee camp in 1946, in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 26, 2026. (Ariel Schalit/AP)
January 27, 2026, 10:52 am
Born in a concentration camp, a Holocaust survivor tells her story for the first time
Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem, one of the youngest living survivors, opens up about the romance her parents shared in captivity, and her miraculous birth and survival
By Melanie Lidman
People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
January 21, 2026, 2:35 pm
Number of UK schools marking Holocaust Remembrance Day drops nearly 60% since Oct. 7
‘I fear for what will happen this year,’ British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis writes of the annual memorial to be held January 27
By Zev Stub
Cyclist Lukáš Klement's 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) bike route in Poland spells the words "Never again" (Zaka Search and Rescue)
January 20, 2026, 2:20 pm
Cyclist completes 47-hour trek to write ‘Never Again’ around Auschwitz
Czech cyclist Lukáš Klement rides through snow, winds and freezing temperatures for 1,000 kilometers to create his message ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day next week
By Zev Stub
A woman wearing a Palestinian flag pushes a stroller on a crosswalk outside EU headquarters in Brussels, May 26, 2024. (AP/Virginia Mayo)
January 8, 2026, 6:25 pm
Europe’s harshest Israel critics aren’t driven by Islamism or antisemitism, report suggests
Study to be released before International Holocaust Remembrance Day finds diplomatic failures, national narratives and virtue signaling in countries leading charge against Israel
By Zev Stub
April 25, 2025, 4:53 am
At Israeli premiere, ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ director struts celebration of life
Holocaust survivors who star in award-winning documentary about controversial pageant attend Haifa screening with Polish-born filmmaker; movie set for worldwide release in January
By Diana Bletter
FILE - A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, California, on September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
February 13, 2025, 6:47 am
Google Calendar no longer shows Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish American Heritage Month
Move is part of broader removal of cultural and ethnic observances from app, with tech firm saying the changes are due to workload and not related to Trump’s anti-DEI directives
By Ben Sales
German-Jewish philosopher Prof. Martin Buber teaching a class at Hebrew University in 1949. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
January 28, 2025, 7:40 pm
Newly found letter shows Martin Buber’s concern over the fate of Polish Jews in 1945
On February 5, 1945, some Hebrew University scholars launched an appeal to fellow faculty members encouraging them to mobilize for European Jews
By Rossella Tercatin
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Executive Secretary Kathrin Meyer appears at a press conference to sign a declaration formally adopting the IHRA working definition of antisemitism at Chelsea Training Ground in Cobham, England, January 17, 2020. (Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images via JTA)
January 28, 2025, 4:57 pm
Holocaust distortion more dangerous than outright denial, warns departing IHRA chief
‘It’s always those who attack freedom, liberal views, diversity and pluralism’ who twist the facts, says Kathrin Meyer. ‘They use Holocaust distortion for their political gain’
By Larry Luxner
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, an Israeli researcher in Holocaust studies who relocated to Oswiecim to be with her Polish husband, walks on the street in Oswiecim, January 13, 2025. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images, via JTA)
January 28, 2025, 7:38 am
The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut, 34, moved to the Polish town that housed the Nazi death camp to join her Polish boyfriend, whom she met on a Holocaust education trip
By PHILISSA CRAMER
This overview shows the main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the so-called Death Gate, during the commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camps by the Red Army, in Oswiecim, Poland, January 27, 2025. (Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 10:27 pm
Holocaust survivors: 80 years after Auschwitz liberation, it’s ‘the same antisemitism’
While the number of survivors in Israel dropped to 123,715 last year, a rising trend of Holocaust memorials in the Muslim world provide ‘a small amount of light’
By Zev Stub
President Isaac Herzog speaks during a ceremony at the UN marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at UN headquarters in New York City on January 27, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)
January 27, 2025, 9:32 pm
Herzog at UN slams its ‘moral bankruptcy,’ says terrorists have weaponized it
Speaking at ceremony on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, president accuses ICC and ICJ of ‘manipulating the definition of genocide for the sole purpose of attacking Israel’
By Amy Spiro
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