Holocaust Memorial Day
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
We examine examples of Holocaust denial and distortion currently on Facebook and YouTube on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023. While dedicated space on these platforms have reduced, Holocaust denial and distortion continues to be hosted and spread.
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Responses to Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Each year on January 27th we publish an article for International Holocaust Memorial Day. Then we receive the comments. We document them, moderate them, and ban posters where we feel it is appropriate. Then we share an article about what we removed and why. We end up doing this every year, it is incredibly painful…
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Holocaust denial and extremism
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day. It is a day when we remember the victims of the Holocaust, and where words of hate can ultimately lead. As the Ontario Court of Appeal in Canada said in 1989, “The Holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers. It began with words, with racial incitement”[1]. This warning…
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2020
Today, January 27th, is Holocaust Memorial Day. 75 years ago on this day the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated. The camp carried out the industrialised the killing of human beings on a grand scale. As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explains, “It is estimated that the SS and police deported at least 1.3 million…
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2017
Holocaust Memorial Day Today, January 27th is designated by the United Nations as Holocaust Memorial Day. It is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp and an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The UN General Assembly resolution creating Holocaust Memorial Day also said the…
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Holocaust Denial & Social Media
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day on which Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated. On this day, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered under an official Nazi policy to exterminate them for simply being who they were:…
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Holocaust Denial
Holocaust denial refers to denial of an official policy by the Nazi government to exterminate Jews, which led to the killing of between 5-6 million Jews, a figure historically accepted. OHPI considers Holocaust denial as a form of antisemitism. It was recognised as such in the Working Definition of Antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance…