Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day. This landmark year marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau, the most notorious camp of the Holocaust. We remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
This milestone year is likely to be the last where the Holocaust remains in living memory. As survivors grow older and fewer in number and with antisemitism continuing to surge, the responsibility to remember and educate has never been more urgent.
27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day. This landmark year marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau, the most notorious camp of the Holocaust. We remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.
This milestone year is likely to be the last where the Holocaust remains in living memory. As survivors grow older and fewer in number and with antisemitism continuing to surge, the responsibility to remember and educate has never been more urgent.
Holocaust Memorial Day News
The Express: Liberation 80th Anniversary
The Daily Express publishes memories of the Holocaust and survivors' hopes for the future.
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BBC Breakfast: Renee Salt on BBC Breakfast
Renee Salt BEM and family share her story with BBC Breakfast.
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80 years since Auschwitz was liberated the world stands together and says 'never again'
The liberation of Auschwitz, 80 years ago, revealed to the world the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust. Today, as the world pauses to remember and reflect, there are stories of courage and survival and of indelible scars left behind.
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Guidelines and Suggested Readings
Holocaust Memorial Day is marked each year on 27th January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and concentration camp.
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Lessons from Auschwitz
A course for sixth-form students centred around two seminars and a one-day visit to Poland. Hear live testimony from a Holocaust survivor, view virtual reality footage of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and more.
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Testimony 360
Testimony 360 is a free digital education programme from the Holocaust Educational Trust that combines digital eyewitness testimony with virtual reality, revolutionising access to survivor testimony and providing an invaluable opportunity for students learning about the Holocaust.
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The Times: ‘I know the Holocaust happened — I was born in a concentration camp’
Eighty years on, British survivors share their harrowing stories, a stark reminder of horrors which exceed the word inhumanity as denial rises and witnesses dwindle
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The Standard: Do not allow yourself another lesson to learn, Holocaust survivor warns
Susan Pollack, 94, asked why antisemitism has not yet been eradicated, ahead of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation.
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The Mirror: 'I saw my dad dragged to his death during Holocaust - now I'm hiding my yarmulke again'
Tomi Komoly, who was given the British Empire Medal in 2020 for his work with the Holocaust Educational Trust, remembers feeling "sheer horror" the last time he saw his father alive
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Times Radio: Our Chief Executive Karen Pollock speaks to Ayesha Hazarika.
HET CEO Karen Pollock CBE in discussion with Baroness Hazarika.
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Holocaust Memorial Day shows how important our survivors’ stories are
Child refugee Harry Olmer is a prime example of the people who rebuilt their lives in Britain
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80 years on, the weight of memory grows heavier
Today's anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation is a stark reminder of the past—and the urgent duty to preserve it for the future.
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Sky News: 'We hope it will never happen again'
Renee Salt BEM sits for a discussion with Trevor Phillips on Sky News.
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