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A survivor of Auschwitz, Tatiana Bucci, will speak to Members of the European Parliament during a special session. A ceremony is planned at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Poland to mark the 81st anniversary of the camp’s liberation. has more.

Various events are taking place throughout Europe to honor the victims of the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany. The European Parliament will conduct a special session to observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A ceremony is planned at the location of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the 81st anniversary of its liberation. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt will place a wreath at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin.

Here is a summary of events related to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Tuesday, January 27, 2026:

What is the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust?

On January 27, the day the Soviet Red Army liberated the remaining prisoners from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during 1945, the United Nations selected this date in 2005 as a global observance to honor the victims of the Holocaust.

Since 1996, this day has served as a time for Germany to honor the millions of victims, including 6 million Jews, who were murdered by the Nazi regime led by dictator Adolf Hitler.

Auschwitz, the biggest Nazi detention facility where up to 1.5 million individuals—primarily Jews, but also numerous Poles, Sinti and Roma people, and political detainees from different countries—were killed between 1940 and 1945, has come to represent the Holocaust, known as the Shoah, or “disaster,” in Hebrew.

A museum honoring the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust was founded at the location of the former camp in 1947.

Welcome to our coverage

We will be tracking developments as the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day, featuring ceremonies honoring the millions who perished in the genocide and crimes committed by the German Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945.

Different ceremonies are occurring as the problem of antisemitism is rising again in many parts of the world, including Germany, while far-right ideas promoting hatred of others are also growing.

Follow the coverage of this significant day marking one of humanity’s most severe crimes in recent history.