Pope Francis warns of 'anti-Semitism' in prayer on 'Anti-Semitism' ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking 80 years Auschwitz concentration camp.

“The horror of destruction Millions of Jewish people And in those years, other persons of different faiths should never be forgotten or rejected,” Francis said, citing the example of the Hungarian poet Edith Brock, who lives in Rome.

“I withdraw my call for everyone to work together to eradicate the scourge of anti-Semitism, together with every form of discrimination and religious persecution,” Francis said for, in the spirit of brotherhood, forgiveness and peace”.

He mentioned that many Christians were also killed in Nazi concentration camps. “Among whom were many martyrs.”

When is Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025?

It is International Holocaust Remembrance Day Falls on January 27, as designated by the UN General Assembly.

(On January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers entered the largest Auschwitz concentration camp and freed about 7,000 prisoners.

How will Holocaust Remembrance Day be commemorated?

Presidents, dignitaries, ambassadors, rabbis and priests will join Holocaust survivors Monday at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany killed more than a million people, most of them prisoners of war, gay people and others aimed at eradicating Adolf Hitler's racial ideology.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it expects about 50 survivors from Auschwitz and other camps to attend the event.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will present an event featuring three survivors, Ruth Cohen, Stephen Fenver and Irene Weiss, who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and for years could not talk about the Holocaust, according to the museum.

Now, 80 years after the camp was liberated, they will relive their experience.

Yom Hashoah

Another internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day is Nisan 27 in the Hebrew calendar.It is called Yom Hashoah in Hebrew and the date commemorates the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

This year, YOM Hashoah will be celebrated on Thursday, April 24 in Israel, since the actual date falls on a Friday when it is kept on Saturday, according to the week. United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumA series

In the United States, Memorial Days are the Sunday before Yom Hashoah, the following Sunday.