In November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to assign January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day that marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most infamous and deadliest concentration camps of the Holocaust. The date serves as a day to honor the victims of Nazism and promote Holocaust education throughout the world.

U.N. Resolution 60/7 strictly rejects any form of Holocaust denial, encourages member states to preserve sites that the Nazis used during the “Final Solution,” and condemns “religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief” throughout the world.

The 2025 theme is “For a better future.” In a statement, the U.N. said “We must become the generations that carry forward the legacy of the witnesses, remember those who were murdered, and challenge those who would distort or deny the past, or who discriminate and persecute today. We can all mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025 and commit to making a better future for us all.”