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


UK officials cover London Holocaust memorial over vandalization fears

The Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, London, was covered by officials in fear that it might be vandalized by pro-Palestinian protesters.

 A woman and a child stand next to the Holocaust memorial in Hyde Park, covered by a tarpaulin, on the day of a march in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in London, April 27, 2024.

Argentinian President Javier Milei due to meet Herzog in Israel

Argentina’s recently elected president, Javier Milei has been very vocal in his condemnation of Hamas and his support for Israel in the current war.

Argentine president-elect Javier Milei addresses supporters after winning Argentina's runoff presidential election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 19, 2023

2,000 children in Portugal visit Porto's Holocaust museum to mark Int'l Holocaust Remembrance Day

Among the exhibits at the site are a reproduction of sleeping cells from the Auschwitz death camp, artifacts and documents that belonged to survivors who fled the Nazis to Porto. 

  Portuguese teenagers visit the Holocaust museum of the Jewish community in Porto on to mark International Holocaust Day

Remembering the Holocaust on screen

This year, following the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7, which led to the outbreak of war, Tel Aviv Cinematheque is showing movies throughout the day to mark the day.

Polish Actor Kamil or Andrzej Tkacs is one of the identical twins who play the true-life role of Holocaust survivor Israel Fridman in the new movie by German director Pepe Danquart.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the shadow of Oct. 7th

Holocaust doesn't seem so far after all, not for those who survived it twice.


Holocaust memorial vandalized with swastika in Philadelphia

The footage of the incident was captured by a nearby surveillance camera. However, the perpetrator wore a ski mask and has been unable to be identified. 

Swastika painted onto an Australian road.

Bringing Ukraine closer to Europe, Zelensky marks 1945 Nazi surrender

Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender came into force at 11:01 p.m. on May 8, 1945, which was already May 9 in Moscow. Russians call the war the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

 UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky takes part in a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the massacre of Jews at Babyn Yar during the Holocaust, in January.

Light amid the darkness

New film pays tribute to a small number of Righteous Among the Nations, who in sharp contrast to most people, showed boundless courage and compassion in risking their lives to save Jews from Nazis.

 Sigmund Krinski kissing Sidney Zoltak

From Destruction to Rebirth

March of the Living participants will visit Israel to experience the Jewish reawakening

  Avi Dickstein

A day not only an act of remembrance, but a remembrance to act - opinion

At this important historical inflection moment, we should ask ourselves what have we learned over the last 80 years and more importantly, what must we do.

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog walks with Polish President Andrzej Duda and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, in Warsaw, last Wednesday