Holocaust Memorial Day 2026
Holocaust Memorial Day is not a ritual. It is not a box to tick, a hashtag to deploy, or a momentary pause before the world scrolls on. It is a reckoning.
On this day, we remember the six million Jewish men, women, and children systematically murdered by the Nazi regime, alongside millions of others who were persecuted and destroyed because they were deemed inconvenient, inferior, or dangerous. They were stripped of their humanity long before they were stripped of their lives. That is the part people forget first.
The Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers. It began with words. With lies repeated often enough to sound like truth. With the quiet acceptance of injustice because it was happening to someone else. With ordinary people convincing themselves that it was not their problem, not their fight, not their responsibility.
This is why remembrance matters.
Memory is not about guilt for the past. It is about responsibility in the present. When we forget how easily civilised societies can descend into barbarism, we make ourselves vulnerable to it happening again. History does not repeat itself neatly, but it rhymes often enough to be dangerous.
Holocaust Memorial Day asks something uncomfortable of us. Not just to mourn the dead, but to examine ourselves. To ask whether we would have spoken up, whether we would have resisted, whether we would have protected the vulnerable when it cost us something to do so.
“Never Again” is not a guarantee. It is a warning.
We honour the victims not by empty words, but by defending truth, human dignity, and moral courage wherever they are threatened. Remembrance is an act of vigilance. Forgetting is an invitation to repeat the worst chapters of our history.
Today, we remember. And we refuse to forget.
