Holocaust Memorial Days

Holocaust Memorial Days

1.       International Holocaust Remembrance Day – Held by the United Nations on January 27th (Auschwitz liberated by the Soviet Red Army) since 2005.

2.       Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) – Held by Israel in April/May (Start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) since 1951

3.       International Holocaust Remembrance Day – Held by the European Community/European Union on January 27th (Auschwitz liberated by the Soviet Red Army) since 1950.

4.       Gedenktag gegen Gewalt und Rassismus im Gedenken an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus  (Memorial Day against Violence and Racism in Memory on the Victims of National Socialism) – Held by Austria on May 5th (when the  Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria was liberated by the Americans) since 1998.

5.       Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jews and of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity  -Held by Bulgaria on March 10th (the day, in 1943, the Bulgarian Government decided to save the 50,000 Jews in their country rather than deport them to the Germans and the death camps.)

6.       Den památky obětí holocaustu a předcházení zločinu proti lidskosti (Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity) – Held by the Czech Republic on January 27th (Auschwitz liberated by the Soviet Red Army.)

7.       Anniversaire de la rafle du Vélodrome d'hiver (Anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup)  - Held by France on July 16th (the day in 1942 when the French and Germans arrested 13,152 Jewish men, women and children in Paris and sent them to Auschwitz)

8.       Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism)  - Held in Germany on January 27th (when Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army) since 1996.9.       Εθνική Ημέρα Μνήμης Ολοκαυτώματος (National Holocaust Memorial Day) – Held in Greece on January 27th (when Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army) since 2004.

10.   Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day) – Held in Italy on January 27th (when Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army) – 2000.

11.   Auschwitzherdenking (Auschwitz Commemoration)  - Held in the Netherlands on January 27th (when Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army)  - since 1993.

12.   Dodenherdenking (Remembrance of the Dead) – Held in the Netherlands on May 4th (to remember all the men, women, children, soldiers and civilians killed by the Germans in the Netherlands and by the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies)

13.   Holocaust Remembrance Day – Held in Poland on April 19th (Start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising)

14.   Ziua Naţională de Comemorare a Holocaustului (National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust) – Held in Romania on October 9th (the beginning of Romanian deportations of Jews to Transnistria, in 1942) – since 2004.

15.   Dan sećanja na žrtve holokausta (Holocaust Remembrance Day) – Held in Serbia on April 22nd.

16.   Förintelsens minnesdag (Holocaust Remembrance Day) – Held in Sweden on January 27th (when Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army) since 1999.

17.   Holocaust Memorial Day – Held in the United Kingdom on January 27th (when Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army) since 2001.

18.   Liberation Day – Held in Jersey and Guernsey, the British Channel Islands on May 9th (when the islands were liberated by the British.) Also used to remember the 2,200 British men, women and children deported along with the British Jews and Foreign Jews on the Islands that were deported and the 6,000 Soviet POWs, Jews and Slavs held in the four concentration camps on the island of Alderney.

19.   Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust – Held by the United States for 8 days in April (to coincide with both the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp by the Americans) since 1979.

20.   Holocaust Remembrance Day – Held by Alberta, Manitoba and Nova Scotia, Canada in April/May (the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) since 2000.