WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors, politicians and regular people commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, gathering at somber events across Europe and beyond to reflect on Nazi Germany's killing of millions of people. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed each year on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi German death camps. Bernard Offen, a 96-year-old survivor told participants that in today's world he sees “signs I know too well.”“I see hatred resurgent. There are an estimated 196,600 Jewish Holocaust survivors still alive globally, down from 220,000 a year ago, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. A Holocaust survivor also addressed the British Cabinet in what Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a first.

Source: International New York Times January 28, 2026 05:07 UTC