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.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
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

In a historic first, the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia held a Holocaust Remembrance Day event, highlighting the importance of Holocaust education in combating antisemitism and advancing tolerance.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

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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

The officials have proposed a “preferred route” for a new high-speed rail line between Hamburg and Hanover that would run less than a quarter of a mile from the Bergen-Belsen loading ramp.

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Before and after Auschwitz: the legacy left behind - opinion

78 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, survivors still measure time as "before and after the camps."

JANUARY 29, 2023ByALEX STERNBERG
THE GATE to Auschwitz, photographed in January 2021, 76 years after the camp’s liberation: There are still countless Jews who say about the Shoah, ‘If this could happen, how can anyone still believe in God?’

The risk of forgetting the Holocaust has never been greater - opinion

This year, we have at least some cause for hope. Just weeks ago, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would begin teaching Holocaust education to primary and secondary school students.

JANUARY 28, 2023ByPAUL PACKER
MARCHERS WRAPPED in Israeli flags attend the annual March of the Living at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, near Oswiecim, Poland.

German anti-discrimination official under fire for omitting Jews on Holocaust Remembrance

Ferda Ataman, the anti-discrimination commissioner for the German federal government, only acknowledged LGBT+ victims of the holocaust.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
A CANDLE is lit and a flower is placed on the railway tracks at Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.

United Nations Headquarters unveils exhibit listing millions of Holocaust victims

The exhibit features the alphabetically arranged names of 4,800,000 Holocaust victim

JANUARY 26, 2023ByHALEY COHEN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan inaugurate the Book of Names at UN headquarters in NYC.

Int'l Holocaust Remembrance ceremony to take place at Massuah

JANUARY 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Massuah Institute

Dear Non-Jews, this is what to do this Holocaust Remembrance day - Opinion

In light of the spike in antisemitism, there is something non-Jews need to remember this Holocaust Remembrance day.

JANUARY 25, 2023ByMATT LEVIN, RONEET EDRICH, JOSH BROIDE
A CANDLE is lit and a flower is placed on the railway tracks at Birkenau, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, last year.

Holocaust ‘Book of Names’ to be inaugurated at the UN

Holocaust ‘Book of Names’ to be inaugurated at the UN underscores the individual identities of the six million victims.

JANUARY 24, 2023ByRENEE GHERT-ZAND
A Holocaust survivor and her great-granddaughter touch in a picture presented by Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on April 27, 2022.

Who are the Holocaust survivors in UK Parliament's memorial day portraits?

The UK Parliament will exhibit a series of portraits of Holocaust survivors and other persecuted people in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day.

JANUARY 10, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Children evacuated from Germany on the Kindertransport in 1938/1939 are given candies in Southampton, England

Holocaust in Latvia Marked with Special March of the Living

JULY 5, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
March of the living Latvia

77 years to Theresienstadt ghetto liberation: “The Journey of a Torah Scroll"

An emotional journey with Holocaust survivors to bring a Torah Scroll that survived the Holocaust and will now make Aliya to Israel

MAY 16, 2022ByINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING
Holocaust survivors Dita Kraus and Hana Sternlicht, Yaakov Ben Zeev from Beit Theresienstadt