Holocaust memorial day

BBC apologizes for omitting mention of Jews in multiple Holocaust Memorial Day broadcasts

The BBC has apologized for failing to mention Jews in its Holocaust Memorial Day broadcasts, prompting backlash from Jewish groups who criticized the omission as disrespectful and harmful.

A person walks outside BBC Broadcasting House. November 16, 2025.
US and Saudi flags flutter along a highway of Riyadh, as pictured through the glass of a car, ahead of the arrival of U.S. President Donald Trump to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 12, 2025.

US Embassy in Saudi Arabia hosts its first Holocaust Remembrance Day event

FILE PHOTO: Abu Ubaida, the spokesman of the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, gestures as he speaks during an anti-Israel military show in the southern Gaza Strip November 11, 2019.

Hamas seeks a role for its police force in Gaza, Trump and Tehran in talks

A recreated train car stands as a memorial at the former loading ramp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 15, 2015.

Deutsche Bahn’s new rail plan cannot be allowed to erase a vital Holocaust memory site - opinion


More than 600 churches worldwide stand with Israel ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

Eagles’ Wings’ “Solidarity Sunday” sends a global message against Antisemitism with a public act of solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people

Encouraging Christian communities to reflect. The main Solidarity Sunday event in Buffalo, New York.

Holocaust remembrance to feature in TV shows, ‘The Pitt’ and the Springsteen biopic premier on TV

Special television programming will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, January 27.

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Holocaust Survivors Refuse to Be Silenced. This Year They Will March on the March of the Living Against Antisemitism

Auschwitz, Poland

Putin establishes Soviet genocide memorial day, erasing Jewish victims of Nazis

The bill - and subsequent reporting - speaks extensively about the "genocide" of Soviet prisoners, the concentration camps, and the extermination camps, without mentioning Jewish victims.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Kazbek Kokov, head of the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria, in Moscow, Russia December 16, 2025.

'It can happen again,' former UK PM Boris Johnson says at Birkenau

During the visit, the Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands, Binyomin Jacobs, shared how his father, a Holocaust survivor, warned him to always keep money at hand because Jews are never truly safe.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Rabbi Menachem Margolin EJA Chairman in a tour of Auschwitz.

French court explores Russian involvement in antisemitic graffiti at Paris Holocaust Memorial

During the night of May 13 to 14, 2024, the four men carried out over 500 acts of vandalism using a stencil, including 35 in the Paris Holocaust Memorial.

Blood-red hands  graffiti on the Paris Holocaust memorial, May 14, 2024.

The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's concert for Holocaust remembrance - review

Rather than actual music from the Holocaust, this Holocaust Memorial Day Concert by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra related in its seriousness of content and Jewish-Israeli focus.

 CELLIST Kristina Reiko Cooper performed with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra last week.

Yom HaShoah: A time to remember, a time to rise - opinion

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we embrace more than ever our responsibility to fulfill the promise and potential that was taken from so many of our Jewish people.

Yom HaShoa: There are only 220,800 Holocaust survivors left in the world according to recent surveys.

Remembering the Holocaust isn’t enough, we must also build - opinion

As he shares lessons of survival from his grandmother, The Jewish Agency’s CEO writes that knowledge about the Holocaust must be more than facts and ceremonies.

 Yehuda Setton

Stolpersteine vandalized in Brussels with Gaza graffiti

Holocaust memorial cobblestones in Brussels were found defaced on Tuesday morning with graffiti mentioning Gaza.

Parts of the Holocaust memorial project "Stolpersteine" (stumbling blocks) are pictured in Berlin, Germany, August 18, 2017.