Kathrin Meyer, departing cretary-general of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said she considers Holocaust distortion particularly dangerous, especially as the number of survivors

The liberation of Auschwitz is being commemorated in the shadow of rising antisemitism in Australia and globally.

This latest act of vandalism at the Ahlem Memorial in Hanover, Germany is the second instance at the memorial within two years.

The United Nations (UN) held the annual Holocaust Memorial Ceremony on January 27 with the theme “Holocaust Remembrance for Dignity and Human Rights”. This year – 2025 – marks the 80 year anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps that resulted in the deaths of over 6

As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and reaches out to Jews.

Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

As antisemitism surges globally in the wake of October 7, an unlikely phenomenon provides grounds for cautious optimism: the emergence and continued operation of Holocaust museums and exhibitions in Muslim-majority countries.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in commemorating the Holocaust and to raise private funds for and build the Washington D.C.-based U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Today, the Council is the governing board of trustees of the museum.

Block named after Israel's Holocaust museum and memorial at ceremony attended by local and Israeli officials: 'This is a reminder, a memory' The post New York City names street ‘Yad Vashem Way’ amid rampant antisemitism appeared first on The Times of Israel.

The new street sign, named for the Jerusalem museum built in 1953 as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust, is just a few steps from Park East Synagogue, the stately Orthodox congregation at 163 East 67th St. that’s been led for more than six decades by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, himself a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Robinson has defended the gesture, with which he concluded his speech at the National Pro-Life Summit last week, as an ‘attempt at dry wit.’