27th January - the Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi Persecution. It’s also used to remember genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

No to indifference, let us not be accomplices of intolerance and new forms of racism

“How can we celebrate Holocaust Remembrance Day?”  

Our motto is: “No indifference”

We are living in a very difficult historical moment and new acts of intolerance and racism are increasing. Indifference is what allows horrible things to happen. Let’s find  ways to influence attitudes, to promote acts of solidarity, integration and social inclusion for the most vulnerable and discriminated people. 

Younger generations need to promote a new culture in order to build a civilization of coexistence in which there is room for everyone.

Holocaust Remembrance Day takes place each year on the 27th January, which is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 is ‘Ordinary People’. It focuses on the idea that it’s ordinary people that facilitate genocide – and that those who are persecuted are ordinary people who belong to a particular group. 

Beki Martin from Facing History and Ourselves explains that you can use this year’s theme “to shine a light on the choices that individuals have – to participate, stand by, resist, remember. It reminds our young people that they have a voice and that they can make a difference.”