Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 is on Monday, January 27, 2025: Holocaust Memorial Day?

Monday, January 27, 2025 is Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. Holocaust‎ Alice Herz-Sommer - Oldest Survivor Has Died at Age 110

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go to the Holocaust Museum Site and there is a place where you can make donations to continue their work or to join the Museum.

Are there any Holocaust memorial museums in Manchester?

Liverpool will be the official host of Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday January 27; the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and world-recognised day of remembrance for the Nazi atrocities in WW2.

This year the event themed ‘Imagine…remember, reflect, react’ aims to bring attention not only to the Jewish Holocaust, but also to other worldwide acts of genocide and intolerance.

As a prelude to the opening event, the RESPECTacles exhibition opened on Monday January 21 at Liverpool Town Hall, on the High Street.

The ongoing exhibition displays a mound of 100,000 pairs of glasses donated by the public, highlighting the horrors of genocide by simulating the piles of glasses confiscated from concentration camp prisoners.

A host of celebrities have donated their specs to the exhibition including: Ringo Starr, Tony Blair, Yoko Ono and Daniel Radcliffe.

A mountain of spectacles confiscated from inmates at Auschwitz. Picture supplied by the Wiener Library.

For the 27th, Liverpool City Council have organised a poignant and emotional opening ceremony featuring Britain’s Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, talks by Holocaust survivors and a performance of the story of the ‘Sarajevo Romeo and Juliet’ – a Bosniak and Bosnian Serb couple shot by both sides as they tried to leave Sarajevo together.

The event begins at noon, at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall, with the arrival of faith and community leaders, and will continue until 4.30pm when the Chief Rabbi will sign a Pledge Against Genocide.

The Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester, will commemorate the Holocaust and more recent genocides with a variety of free events taking place over the whole weekend.

Short films about survivors and refugees, guided walks through the museum and musical performances reflecting on Jewish musical heritage will be rounded off on Sunday by a talk and exhibition by Bergen-Belsen child-survivor and sculptor Maurice Blik.

Should more effort be taken to commemorate Holocaust Memorial day?

Much better to have a memorial day for all those that have suffered under the hands of a tyrannious and oppressive government or dictatorship, regardless of ethnicity or religion. This will mean that there will be barely a country without blood on its hands for past events. If all is fair in love and war, then all should be fair in rememberence of victims of past suffering.

There have been numerous films made and books written about the holocaust. How many films are there on the people that suffered under the hands of Stalin, or The Crusades. How many hollywood films are there on Guantamino Bay? Can you imagine a film (to hit mainstream cinemas) about the Arab-Israeli conflict from the point of view of a Palestinian?