Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day and the erasure of Jewish victims

The concept of ‘never again” is losing its specificity, as the Shoah is increasingly universalised and the vicious antisemitism that fuelled it diminished

By Evie Robinson

4 min read

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany. (Image: Getty)

The artwork for the mural in Paisley being painted to commemorate Jane Haining (inset)

Scotland

Artwork unveiled for mural to honour ‘heroic’ Scot who refused to abandon Jewish schoolgirls in Budapest

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto heroes (Image: Getty)

By Karen Pollock

The dangerous erasure of Jews from the Holocaust

3 min read

Health Secretary Wes Streeting on a hospital visit with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Getty Images)

NHS

Wes Streeting vows to combat ‘grotesque’ antisemitism in the NHS

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Protestors outside a Holocaust commemoration in Sheffield. (Image: X)

By Russell Langer

When Holocaust Memorial Day fails the Jews

3 min read

Rabbi Naftali Schiff (left) with Hershel Herskovic, at the wedding of one of Hershel's great-grandchildren

Holocaust Memorial Day 2026

Rabbi tells miraculous story of 51 boys who escaped the gas chambers of Auschwitz

By Gaby Wine

3 min read

Students from JCoSS and students from The German School (Photo: Benji Rosenberg)

Holocaust Memorial Day 2026

German and Jewish teenagers unite for poignant Holocaust Memorial Day concert

By Ben Conway

4 min read

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Jews vanish from Holocaust Memorial Day committee amid claims of ‘marginalisation’

One, a descendant of survivors, got the boot after he alleged the day was being framed as ‘celebration’

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

January 23, 2026 11:48

Derby Cathedral, where the HMD event is held (Image: Nick Moyes)

By David Harris

Holocaust memory is failing – and antisemitism is rising across the West

Postwar moral restraints are weakening as Jew-hatred is normalised, the Shoah is distorted, and demographic shifts reshape Western societies

4 min read

January 22, 2026 15:28

Visiting children look at an exhibit of shoes that belonged to Auschwitz child prisoners at the former Auschwitz I concentration camp (Image: Getty)

AJR commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day by bridging the past and present

The annual event featured speeches by a Holocaust survivor and several generations of descendants to underscore the living legacy of the Shoah today

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

January 22, 2026 10:57

Survivors and second, third and fourth generation descendants light candles at AJR's annual Holocaust Memorial Day service at Belsize Square Synagogue on January 20 2026. (Photo: Adam Soller Photography)

Holocaust Memorial Day: One man’s mission to capture the faces of survivors for eternity

Portrait photographer John Balsom was accustomed to snapping celebrities – until, as Lianne Kolirin writes, he developed a devotion to taking pictures of those who lived through the Holocaust

By Lianne Kolirin

6 min read

January 21, 2026 13:18