Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a United Nations-designated memorial day observed annually on Jan. 27, the date Auschwitz was liberated in 1945.

While Jewish communities traditionally observe Yom HaShoah, which typically falls in April to mark the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, today's commemoration is often an opportunity for non-Jews to engage with Holocaust remembrance and education.

These articles chronicle the ongoing effort to honor those we lost, and celebrate the survivors who carry on their memory — both of which have taken on new meaning since Oct. 7.

‘I never imagined that something like this could ever happen again’: Holocaust survivors share their Oct. 7 experiences

Not all double-survivors believe it is appropriate to compare Oct. 7 to the Holocaust.

Could social media really have stopped the Holocaust? Scholars say Elon Musk’s ‘fantasy scenario’ is far-fetched.

One scholar suggested that Musk “take an intro course on the Holocaust.”

Number of living Holocaust survivors is about 245,000, according to new analysis

The oldest known survivor is Rose Girone, 112, of Queens, New York. Her family escaped Germany in 1938 and lived out the war in Shanghai.

Opinion: My ‘transgressive’ Holocaust novel is still stirring debate, 20 years later

The author of "The Holocaust Kid" writes about the critical and scholarly resistance to ruminations on the Shoah that refuse to be reverent.

‘Club 2600’ is Brooklyn’s hottest party — for Holocaust survivors

The monthly gathering is thrown by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, a social services organization that serves some 3,000 survivors in the borough.

Opinion: I’m an Israeli artist of Moroccan descent. Is the Holocaust my story to tell?

During a residency at Yad Vashem, a painter confronts his own place in the Jewish people's national trauma.

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