List of Holocaust memorial days

A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its allies. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration.

List

Worldwide

Many observances fall on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945. In 2005, the United Nations instituted an international observance, International Holocaust Remembrance Day and established Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.

Country	Day	Name	Notes
United Nations	27 January	International Holocaust Remembrance Day	Designated by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005.
Azerbaijan	27 January	Day of the Tragedy and Heroism of the Jews	State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the Work with Religious Organisations participates each 27 January in meetings organised by Jewish communities to commemorate the Holocaust. Holocaust victims are also commemorated during the events held on the anniversary of the victory over fascism, celebrated each year on 9 May.
Australia	27 January	International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Austria	5 May	Memorial Day against Violence and Racism in Memory on the Victims of National Socialism	This day is in purpose of memorial of people who were killed in Gusen concentration camp. In 2022 the Austrian government bought the land where Gusen was and established a memorial museum there.
Belgium	27 January	International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Bulgaria	10 March	Holocaust Remembrance Day and the "Day of the Salvation of the Bulgarian Jews and of the Victims of the Holocaust and of the Crimes against Humanity"	The day of the revocation of the plan to expel the country's Jewish population, officially designated in 2003.
Canada	27 Nisan	All ten Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan enacted legislation to recognize Holocaust Memorial Day on Yom HaShoah.
Croatia	27 January	Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity
Czech Republic	27 January	Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity
Denmark	27 January	Auschwitz Day
Estonia	27 January	Holocaust Remembrance Day
Finland	27 January	Memorial Day for the Victims of the Holocaust	It was called Vainon uhrien muistopäivä before 2024.
France	16-17 July	Anniversary of the Vel' d'Hiv roundup	In 2003 France designated this date as the day of remembrance of genocides and prevention of crimes against humanity.
Germany	27 January	Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism
Greece	27 January	National Holocaust Memorial Day	Since 2004.
Hungary	16 April	Holocaust Memorial Day	Since 2001.
Ireland	27 January	National Holocaust Memorial Day
Israel	27 Nisan	Yom HaShoah, or Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura	Both an Israeli day of remembrance and a day of remembrance observed by many Jewish communities in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The date relates both to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which began 13 days earlier on the first night of Passover 1943, and to the Israeli Independence Day which is eight days later.
Italy	27 January	Memorial Day
Latvia	4 July	Commemoration Day of the Victims of the Genocide Against the Jewish People Ebreju tautas genocīda upuru piemiņas diena	Burning of the Great Choral Synagogue in Riga in 1941.
Lithuania	23 September	Day of the Genocide of Lithuania's Jews Lietuvos žydų genocido diena	Anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto in 1943.
Luxembourg	27 January	Holocaust Memorial Day
Netherlands	last Sunday of January	Holocaust Memorial Day	Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945.
Poland	27 January	International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust	Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945.
Portugal	27 January	Holocaust Remembrance Day	There is a Museum of Holocaust in Porto.
Romania	9 October	National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust	Beginning of deportations of Romanian Jews to Transnistria Governorate in 1941.
Slovakia	9 September	Holocaust Victims and Racial Hatred Day	On 9 September 1941, Slovakia passed anti-Jewish laws based on the Nuremberg laws.
Spain	27 January	Day for Holocaust Remembrance and for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity	Since 2004.
Sweden	27 January	Holocaust Remembrance Day	A national remembrance day every year since 1999.
Switzerland	27 January	International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Taiwan	27 January 25 February	Holocaust Memorial Day	In addition to the European events, Taiwan also honors the victims of the February 28 incident.
Ukraine	27 January	Holocaust Memorial Day	Since 2020.
United Kingdom	27 January	Holocaust Memorial Day	First held in January 2001 and on the same date every year since.
United States	from 20 April through 27 April 2025	Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

Related events

In January 2020, a ceremony was held at Auschwitz to mark the 75th anniversary of its liberation on 27 January 1945. this included speeches by numerous officials and Jewish communal leaders. Large number of Holocaust survivors attended this ceremony. In the UK, government officials, religious leaders and community leaders gathered in London to commemorate this anniversary. On the same date, German police reported they were investigating the sales of a brand of beer with Nazi-style symbols on its label.
In 2021 a number of Jewish organizations in the United Kingdom incorporated the situation in Xinjiang into their Holocaust Memorial Day remembrances and commemorations.
In February 2025, Google announced that Holocaust Remembrance Days would no longer be highlighted by default on Google Calendar, arguing that it was no longer "scalable or sustainable" to continue adding the growing number of national and international "cultural moments" manually to its calendars.