Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023

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Statement by the Prime Minister on International Holocaust ... (Prime Minister of Canada)

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I join Canadians in honouring the memory of the more than six million Jews who were murdered during the ...

Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, the Honourable Irwin Cotler, continues to advance our work on combatting antisemitism and all forms of racial discrimination and on preserving the memory of the Holocaust – both at home and abroad. Today, we say ‘never again,’ and we reaffirm our shared responsibility to do everything we can to combat hatred, antisemitism, and discrimination in all its forms.” We provided historic funding to strengthen Holocaust remembrance, including by supporting the construction of a new Holocaust museum in Montréal, the creation of the Toronto Holocaust Museum, and the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s redevelopment project, which will include a new home for the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023: UK statement to the OSCE (GOV.UK)

Ambassador Neil Bush marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and stresses the need to stand against antisemitism in all its forms.

We will continue to drive international efforts to promote Holocaust education, and counter Holocaust denial and distortion when the UK takes the Chairpersonship of IHRA in March 2024. We must continue to stand against it in all its forms, and to reject any attempts to deny the facts of the Holocaust. We will soon reach a point when the march of time means that the Holocaust will no longer be part of our living history.

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Survivor's life mission is educating ... (WLS-TV)

Holocaust survivor Nellie Wiesenthal Fink spoke out on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023. She volunteers at the DC Holocaust Museum.

So we have to treasure these stories," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Midwest Regional Director Jill Weinberg said. "There's so much work to do. They listen and they ask questions.

What you should know about International Holocaust Remembrance ... (KSDK.com)

The United Nations General Assembly chose to designate Jan. 27 as a day to remember the 6 million Jews who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023 (USA TODAY)

Wreaths are placed at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2023: Digitalising eyewitness testimonies (swissinfo.ch)

Jews who survived the Holocaust are dying. A digital exhibition keeps their testimony alive.

The exhibition features a lot of childhood and adolescent memories of the time of the destruction. Erlich is one of the oldest survivors featured in the digital exhibition. Many of the people portrayed in the exhibition came later, after the Hungarian uprising in 1956 or the Prague Spring in 1968. The fact that today, with broad political support, a memorial is to be erected to commemorate those who were sent to their deaths at the Swiss borders and others who were killed in the camps is also the result of a long process. Bronislaw Erlich is one of the Holocaust survivors portrayed. The survivors of the Holocaust are increasingly falling silent.