Jan 27, 2026 4 min read

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Why 'Never Again' Still Isn't Enough

27 January 2026

Editor's Note: Everything in this post is a quote from the article directly below it.

'Pope Leo XIV commemorated the International Day with a Tweet on his Pontifex account, stressing that “the Church remains faithful to the unwavering position of the Declaration Nostra Aetate against every form of antisemitism. The Church rejects any discrimination or harassment based on ethnicity, language, nationality, or religion.”' --VN

"Last year was an especially demoralizing year for the Jewish community, as gunmen killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, in December. Months before that, two people were killed at a Manchester, England, synagogue on Yom Kippur after a man drove his car into pedestrians then stabbed congregants.

"The Anti-Defamation league, a nonprofit that fights antisemitism, reported an increase in assaults and harassment in the U.S., especially during anti-Israel demonstrations.

"The ADL counted more than 9,000 antisemitic incidents across the U.S. in 2024, the latest year of data available." --WLRN

"To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, The Learning Curve guest host Andrea Silbert, President of the Eos Foundation, speaks with Ruth Franklin, former editor of The New Republic and author of The Many Lives of Anne Frank. Ms. Franklin reflects on the enduring literary significance of Anne Frank’s diary while providing an overview of her life and the wider historical context of World War II and the Holocaust." --PI

'International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed across each year on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi German death camps. The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution in 2005 establishing the day as an annual commemoration.

“The attempt, carried out by Nazi Germany, to erase the Jews from the face of Europe encapsulates, in an emblematic way, all the evil that human beings are capable of committing when they allow themselves to be infected — out of superficiality, indifference, cowardice, or self-interest — by the virus of hatred, racism, and oppression,” Italian President Sergio Mattarella said in a gathering with survivors in Rome.' --AP

"Holocaust denial, revisionism and distortion are not fringe relics; they are organized, adaptive industries that have expanded their reach and infrastructure in the past two years.”

"We must ... expose the danger of forgetting and distortion: the way revisionist networks such as the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), figures like Germar Rudolf, and propagandists such as Stew Peters work, right now, to turn a meticulously documented genocide into just another “controversy.”" --SPLC