US EditionWorld pauses to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day honors survivors and victims of Nazi atrocities, with 196,600 survivors worldwide, half residing in Israel, according to Claims Conference data.
- Soviet Army forces opened the gates of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, liberating the camp in occupied Poland and finding 7,500 prisoners and 600 bodies; January 27 is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- Auschwitz-Birkenau was the Nazis' largest centre of systematic slaughter, where over 1.1 million people were murdered and nearly 60,000 inmates were forced on death marches.
- Data show fewer than 200,000 Holocaust survivors remain worldwide, half living in Israel, median age 87, and only 50 Auschwitz survivors attended last year's ceremony.
- Commemorations on the anniversary were held across Europe and at the United Nations on Tuesday, while Poland's President Karol Nawrocki joined survivors at Birkenau and former prisoners laid flowers at the Execution Wall.
- Claims Conference data show $530 million in compensation and $960 million for welfare were distributed in 2025, while the Auschwitz site remains a central symbol of Nazi genocide.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: Events held marking 81 years since liberation of Auschwitz
Holocaust survivors, politicians and members of the public have gathered at events across Europe to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. We were joined by Dina Kraft, who co-wrote a memoir with Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick Gosler who was one of Anne Frank's closest friends.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz 81 Years Ago Today
Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland, at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at memorial sites around the world.
On the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the former German extermination camp, the Auschwitz Memorial dispenses with political speeches. The focus is on the admonishing words of the survivors.
Today, the civilized world commemorates the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This date symbolically refers to the day when, in the last war year of World War II, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, probably better known in the Czech Republic as Auschwitz. On this day, as every year, we will hear a number of politicians and their learned phrases about how we must remember, how we have learne…
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