Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, marking over 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. We remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. As survivors grow fewer and antisemitism rises, today is more vital than ever.
Will you remember?
Susan Pollack OBE was 13 when she was deported to Auschwitz. Today, it is up to the next generation to ensure her story is not forgotten.
As antisemitism becomes ever more visible, remembrance must lead to action. Your support helps the Holocaust Educational Trust preserve survivor testimony and educate young people.
Because soon, there will be no one left to say, “I was there.”
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Immediately following the Anschluss, Holocaust survivor Hedi Argent MBE and her family faced discrimination and intimidation from everyone around her, spurred on by years of rising antisemitism in Austria.
She remembers the days after the Anschluss.
‘There was no fresh air, no water. So many of us died’.
Between May and July 1944, over 400,000 Hungarian Jews were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by cattle truck. More than 330,000 were murdered immediately upon arrival.
On this day in 1944, the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews began. Over 400,000 were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp in just two months.
On this day in 1939, the St. Louis sailed from Hamburg carrying 937 passengers, almost all Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.
Denied entry to Cuba and the United States, many were forced back to Europe. 254 passengers from the St. Louis were later murdered in the Holocaust.
On this day in 1933, Nazi student groups carried out public burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state.
Today in 1940, Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) was sealed. The Nazis enclosed 165,000 Jewish people in a space of 1.6 square miles, not knowing what would happen next or how long they would be kept there.
