To mark Holocaust Memorial Day by hearing about the experiences of a Holocaust survivor. 27 January 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
Taking place every year on 27 January, the theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 is ‘For a Better Future’. A statement from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust said that the day is ‘to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, and millions more people murdered through the Nazi persecution of other groups and in the more recent genocides recognised by the UK government’.
These include the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. January 27 marks the day in 1945 when soldiers of the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where more than one million men, women and children were murdered. The word ‘Holocaust’ has been widely used in English speaking countries since the end of World War Two to describe the systematic murder by the Nazis of groups including Jews, Slavs, Romani people, people with disabilities, gay men and political opponents.
Holocaust Memorial Day was first held in the UK in January 2001. 27 January 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
