Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Strive “for a better future” on #HMD2025
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Today (27 January) is Holocaust Memorial Day and when people across the world gather to remember the 6 million Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust.
The day also commemorate the millions more people murdered through the Nazi persecution, the communists, LGBT+ and disabled people as well as the millions more who were murdered in other genocides around the world.
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) this year marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Bosnia.
The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 is “For a better future” and organisers are encouraging people to join together, learn the lessons of the past and take action for a better future.
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust stresses, “At a time of heightened tensions and communal division in the UK, partly as a result of the conflict in the Middle East, bringing communities together in recognition of our common humanity is more important than ever and HMD activity organisers all across the UK play a vital role in making this happen.”
It is imperative for us all to remember historic and current genocides, and to understand the causes that lead up to such atrocities so that we can stop it from happening again. These actions have been the culmination of years of powerful regimes, political parties and groups, and individuals sowing seeds of hatred against those they pose as ‘other’. This is still happening today.
For this reason Unite’s Unity over Division campaign against the rise of the far right and scapegoating groups of people in our society. The campaign celebrates what we have in common, respects our differences and rejects hatred in favour of hope.
Unite Equalities says; “The 2025 Holocaust Memorial Day theme, for a better future, makes us more determined to oppose and defeat all forms of discrimination in our workplaces and communities.
“As trade unionists, we must lead the way in challenging any form of prejudice and encourage others to speak out and stand for the elimination of racial violence and abuse in this country and worldwide.”
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By Keith Hatch
