International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Massachusetts man threatened to kill Jews as antisemitic incidents rise
By Yonat Shimron — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — The 59-year-old Massachusetts man is alleged to have called Congregation Agudas Achim, a synagogue in Attleboro, and left a voicemail threatening to kill Jews.
How many Holocaust memorial days do we need?
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — There are three different days for remembering the Holocaust. Each one has a different message. Which message do we need today?
Nazi genocides of Jews and Roma were entangled from the start – and so are their efforts at Holocaust remembrance today
By Ari Joskowicz — January 29, 2024
(The Conversation) — Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities.
Nazi death camp survivors mark 79th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation on Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Czarek Sokolowski — January 29, 2024
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — About 20 survivors from various camps set up by Nazi Germany around Europe laid wreaths and flowers and lit candles at the Death Wall in Auschwitz.
Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue
By Sabina Niksic — January 29, 2024
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The event on Saturday underscored the message that the two communities share the experience of persecution and must stay united in their commitment to peace.
Pope says Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds world that war can never be justified
By Associated Press — January 26, 2024
ROME (AP) — At the end of his weekly general audience, Francis referred to Saturday’s commemoration, which has become fraught this year given Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and a rise in antisemitism in Europe and around the world.
Elon Musk visits Auschwitz after uproar over antisemitic messages on X
By Czarek Sokolowski — January 22, 2024
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — The private visit was apparently in response to calls from some Jewish religious leaders for Musk to see with his own eyes the most symbolic site of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Catholic Church’s moral reckoning on Jews and the Holocaust
By Ken Jacobson — January 26, 2021
(RNS) — The evolution of church teaching has been transformative in Christian (not just Catholic) attitudes toward Jews.
Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera — January 27, 2019
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma and others by Nazi Germany during World War II.
As survivors age, Holocaust educators rush to preserve their irreplaceable testimony
By Michele Chabin — January 24, 2019
JERUSALEM (RNS) — The race against time has prompted a program to take survivors back to their hometowns in Europe to film their recollections of the places where they experienced the catastrophe most acutely.
What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of millennials don’t know it was a Nazi death camp, survey reports
By Mark A. Kellner — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — It also found that 31 percent of all Americans and more than 4-in-10 millennials believe that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust — substantially less than the historically accepted figure, which is closer to 6 million.
Trump statement on Holocaust remembrance does not mention Jews
By David Gibson — January 27, 2017
(RNS) Trump's words break from the traditional language followed by the president's Democratic and Republican predecessors, and upset some Jewish leaders.
Obama warns of growing anti-Semitism
By Gregory Korte — January 28, 2016
WASHINGTON — On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the president honors 4 people who helped save Jews during World War II.
World marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Kim Hjelmgaard — January 27, 2016
The anniversary, marked each year since 2005, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland by the Russian army in 1945. One million people died there.
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