LEST WE FORGET

 

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST – MONDAY, 27 JANUARY 2026

 

In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honour the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides. 

 

This coming Tuesday, 27th January, Jewish people the world over will observe the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest concentration camp established by the Germans which was liberated by the Red Army on the 27th January 1945.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the infamous concentration and extermination camp where more than a million Jews, Gypsies, Soviets, and Poles were murdered.

 

Jewish people say: “Lest we forget”. 

You see, Jewish people will never forget the terrible, evil event known as the Holocaust. Yet judging by the appalling rise in anti-Semitism, the world seems to have already forgotten.

 

On Saturday, 7 October 2023, the Nation of Israel, while observing the Shabbat and celebrating the joyous day of ‘Simchat Torah’, was treacherously attacked by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.