INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY (IHRD) was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005. Observed annually on January 27, the day Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Allies, IHRD is intended to educate about the German-led genocide in which six million Jews, one in three Jews living in 1939, were murdered.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005. The commemoration takes place annually on January 27, the day Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Allies. IHRD is intended to educate about the German-led genocide in which six million Jews were murdered, or one in three Jews living in 1939.

Although Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas ended last fall, Jews around the world are facing an explosion of antisemitic hatred. From the massacre of 15 Jews at Bondi Beach to the firebombing of Hillel Houses, antisemitic hate and vitriol have been allowed to flourish unchecked around the globe.

Very often, Jew-haters invoke the Holocaust to demonize Israel and Jewish people. Most prominent is the outrageous canard that Israel perpetrated a genocide in Gaza, a territory whose population is higher today than it was in 2023. In places where Jews are demonized in this manner, Holocaust “inversion” is used against Israel to put the world’s only Jewish state on the docket for defending itself.

The presenters in this seminar menu are each available to meet with your class or group on Zoom to discuss their project as featured here. Please consider commemorating IHRD with one of these seminars or another StandWithUs Holocaust Education Center project.