Holocaust Memorial Day

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Revealed: Police quizzed wrongfully arrested Jewish mother over her faith

MPs blast ‘unacceptable’ interrogation and urge the force to explain itself

By Jane Prinsley

8 min read

Rosalind and Maxie with their children and (right) the moment police knocked on their door

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80 Candles for 80 Years exhibition touring the UK

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

Sir Sajid Javid visits the Kotel in Jerusalem (Photo: Holocaust Memorial Trust)

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Former Tory home secretary Sir Sajid Javid confirmed as the new chair of the HMDT

By Ahron Asher Moss

1 min read

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Holocaust Memorial Day report reveals high engagement levels despite ‘tough year’

By Gaby Wine

3 min read

President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina arriving at a Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Mansion House in Dublin. (Alamy)

By Baroness Ruth Deech

The universalisation of the Holocaust undermines the fight against antisemitism

3 min read

Britain's King Charles III lays a candle during commemorations at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camp on during commemorations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Red Army, in Oswiecim, Poland on January 27, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Chown / POOL / AFP) (Photo by AARON CHOWN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

By Daniel Finkelstein

It’s wrong to say Holocaust Memorial Day has been diluted. We must back it

3 min read

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How I got to give a Shoah lecture on January 27

By Karen E H Skinazi

3 min read

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By Gaby Wine

How can someone not know how to pronounce ‘Auschwitz’?

Mainstream schools need to take a long hard look at how they teach the Holocaust to ensure pupils are learning the facts

4 min read

February 8, 2025 07:47

School pupils meeting a Holocaust survivor on Holocaust Memorial Day at Kingston, Surbiton and District Synagogue

Walk-out at Leicester Holocaust Memorial Day after speaker accuses Israel of genocide

High school student drew parallels between Gaza and Holocaust at Leicester HMD event

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

January 31, 2025 14:08

The grandson of Holocaust survivors was devasted when a student speaker at an HMD event in Leicester accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza (Photo: Getty)

Jews excluded from Lowestoft Holocaust Memorial Day wreath-laying

One of the speakers at the event allegedly made ‘deeply offensive’ comments regarding the Gaza War during commemorations

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

January 30, 2025 15:20

Mayor of Lowestoft, Councillor Nasima Begum, laid a wreath for HMD at Lowestoft Station. Local Jewish residents have complained that there was no Jewish representation at the ceremony (Photo: Lowestoft Town Council)

By Jake Wallis Simons

This was the year the Jews were told ‘the Holocaust is not about you’

Holocaust Memorial Day has been so debased that it is no longer fit for purpose

3 min read

January 29, 2025 17:52

President Higgins controversially addressing the Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin

Spurs Stadium leads the way on Holocaust Memorial Day

Commemorative events took place up and down the country

By Gaby Wine

7 min read

January 28, 2025 17:46

Helen Stone – the daughter of Holocaust survivor Emmy Golding - holds a chanukiah which belonged to her mother, with other attendees at the annual civic interfaith Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration for the London Borough of Haringey.

Tory councillor compares Gaza war to Holocaust in HMD Facebook post

Jewish groups have called on the Conservative Party to take ‘firm disciplinary action’ over the comments

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

January 28, 2025 16:19

Conservative Councillor Justin Thompson (left) with Labour MP Luke Myer (right), (Image: Facebook).

The lessons of Auschwitz are being lost, Ron Lauder warns world

In his address at the 80th anniversary ceremony at the death camp, the Jewish leader references October 7 in a powerful wake-up call

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

January 28, 2025 13:09

President of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder makes an address on behalf of the major donors of the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Lammy calls Yad Vashem visit ‘a great honour’ at HMD event

The Foreign Office and Israeli Embassy jointly hosted the ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

January 28, 2025 11:09

Foreign Secretary David Lammy attends Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at the FCDO (Image: FCDO).

Pro-Gaza MP advertises motion calling Palestinian prisoners ‘hostages and abductees’ on Holocaust Memorial Day

One Labour MP labelled the motion ‘shameful’ and ‘disgusting’ in comments to the JC

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

January 28, 2025 10:45

Pro-Gaza independent MP Ayoub Khan has been criticised for a 'shameful' motion that seems to equate the hostages held by Hamas with Palestinian prisoners, some of whom are convicted of terror offences (Image: Ayoub Khan/X)

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Holocaust Memorial Day

Revealed: Police quizzed wrongfully arrested Jewish mother over her faith

80 Candles for 80 Years exhibition touring the UK

Former Tory home secretary Sir Sajid Javid confirmed as the new chair of the HMDT

Holocaust Memorial Day report reveals high engagement levels despite ‘tough year’

The universalisation of the Holocaust undermines the fight against antisemitism

It’s wrong to say Holocaust Memorial Day has been diluted. We must back it

How I got to give a Shoah lecture on January 27

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