Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 is on Monday, January 27, 2025: What Should National Holocaust Memorial Day Consist?

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Holocaust Memorial Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day may refer to a number of world-wide commemorations of the Holocaust taking place during World War II.

Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is a national commemoration day in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of those who suffered in The Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

~If we're going to have a Holocaust memorial, let's at least make it accurate. Jews were hardly the primary, let alone exclusive, target of Nazi atrocities. About 6 million people died in Himmler's Death Camps. Only around 2.5 million of them were Jews. About 12 to 18 million died in the Concentration Camps. Only around 3.5 million of them were Jews. Had the Red Army not repelled Operation Barbarossa and determined the end of the Third Reich at Stalingrad, another 30 million ethnic Poles, 30 million Slavs and 25 to 50 million Russians had been marked for extinction. The "Final Solution" was but one component of the National Socialist plan for 'racial purification' and 'racial cleansing'. Why are the vast majority of the victims seemingly forgotten and ignored? That is obscene, an inhuman dishonor to the memory of the dead and makes for downright dangerous "history".

You mention the Holocaust and I presume you include the Concentration Camps within the term, but have you ever even heard the name Theodor Eicke? That's just as well, I suppose, since the Concentration Camps were hardly part of the mass execution programs of Himmler and Heydrich - which only lasted for about 18 months from December 1941 until the Spring of 1943 and which were terminated by Himnler himself. Oops, those simple, basic facts don't get mentioned, do they?

But yes, if we are going to celebrate Man's Inhumanity to Man, let's make it universal. Include the Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's Killing Field, Darfur, Stalin's Purges, Kim Il Sung, Menghistu, Biafra, Suharto and the millions upon millions who died at the hands of US/CIA installed and/or supported ruthless dictators the world over (like Samoza, Trujillo, Arbenz, Pinochet, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Suharto, Ngo Dinh Diem and on and on ab nauseum).

Come to think of it, why make it into another Hallmark Holiday? Why not get out in the streets and scream our outrage? Ah, that's right. The 60's are dead too. Anyhow, repression, organized mass murder and genocide are such part and parcel of the human condition that we should expect it and take it for granted. In fact, we honor those who partake in it if they have the great good sense to be on our side. There has been no particular outrage since the dawn of Man, so why start now? Particularly since mass slaughter is celebrated in our national histories and "holy books" of myth and legend. More have died in the name of god, by whatever name one's superstition gives it, than for any other cause. When our institutional moral code (to those that accept such fairy tales) celebrates it, how do you suppose it will stop?

When is Holocaust Memorial Day?

Holocaust Memorial Day will be on 27th January 2010. There is more information about it on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website here:

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Is Holocaust Memorial Day recognized throughout the Middle East?

Denials of the Holocaust have been occasionally promoted by various Middle Eastern figures and media. According to Associated Press reports, Arab world attitudes towards the Holocaust vary considerably. In 2009, a University of Haifa survey revealed that 40.5 percent of Israeli Arabs claim the Holocaust never happened. Prominent Arab figures from the Middle East have rarely made publicized visits to Auschwitz - but Israel's Arab community is an exception. In 2010, Hadash MK Mohammed Barakeh visited, following a previous visit of two other Arab-Israeli lawmakers, and a group of about 100 Arab-Israeli writers and clerics in 2003. Individuals from the Syrian government, the Palestinian Authority, and a number of Palestinian groups have all engaged in various aspects of Holocaust denial. According to Robert Satloff writing in the Washington Post, "A respected Holocaust research institution recently reported that Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia all promote Holocaust denial and protect Holocaust deniers."F Hamas leaders have promoted Holocaust denial; Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi held that the Holocaust never occurred, that Zionists were behind the action of Nazis, and that Zionists funded Nazism. A press release by Hamas in April 2000 decried "the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis." In August 2009, Hamas refused to allow Palestinian children to learn about the Holocaust, which it called "a lie invented by the Zionists" and referred to Holocaust education as a "war crime."

On the other hand

Holocaust denial has also been resisted by prominent intellectual figures in the Arab world; in 2001, an outcry led by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Lebanese writer Elias Khoury and others brought about the cancellation of a conference the Holocaust denial organization Institute for Historical Review had planned to hold in Beirut. In 2007, the founder of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish, condemned Holocaust denial in the Muslim world (especially that by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad) In August 2002, the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up, an Arab League think-tank whose Chairman, Sultan bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, promoted a Holocaust denial symposium in Abu Dhabi. The government of the United Arab Emirates closed down the Zayed Center as a result.