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Our Memorial pages have been created to honour and remember all those who endured the Holocaust, Nazi persecution of other groups, and in the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is appalled that President Putin is deliberately misusing Holocaust language and imagery – this is knowingly distorting the historical record and is antisemitic. He is cynically abusing the term ‘genocide’ to justify Russia’s unprovoked invasion.

The Holocaust (השואה 'The Shoah' in Hebrew) was the attempt by the Nazis and their collaborators to murder all the Jews in Europe. From the time they assumed power in Germany in 1933, the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny human and civil rights to German Jews. They used centuries of antisemitism (anti-Jewish hatred) as their foundation.

Each year we organise the UK Commemorative Ceremony for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). This is the focal point of HMD in the UK and brings together the civic, faith and political leadership of the country, alongside survivors of the Holocaust and more recent genocides.