Holocaust Remembrance Day
“There are cultures that forget the past and there are cultures that are held captive by the past. Jews do neither. We carry the past with us as we will carry the memory of the Shoah with us, for as long as the Jewish people exists, as Moses carried the bones of Joseph, and as the Levites carried the fragments of the shattered tablets of stone. Those fragments of memory help make us who we are.” — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
27 Nisan 5786
Begins: Sundown on Monday 13 April 2026
Ends: Nightfall on Tuesday 14 April 2026
Watch Rabbi Sacks’ speech from the 70 Days for 70 Years U.S. launch in New York. Rabbi Sacks was deeply honoured to become...
On Sunday 7th April 2013, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks delivered the keynote address at the National Yom HaShoah Commemoration Ceremony...
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks recorded this message for Holocaust Memorial Day, 27th January 2012, on the silence that haunted him...
Rabbi Sacks answers some deep questions frequently asked about the Holocaust. This series, in partnership with the Holocaust Educational Trust, has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Richard Harris.
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
In April 2020, to coincide with Yom HaShoah, the day in the Jewish calendar dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, and the...
Essays and writings from Rabbi Sacks' extensive body of work
ARTICLES
Today, Holocaust Memorial Day, will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. This year we will also remember...
ARTICLES, ARTICLES
On Sunday we will commemorate Yom HaShoah, the day set aside in the Jewish calendar for Holocaust remembrance. Always a...
REFLECTIONS
Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the victims of the greatest crime of man against man – the young, the...
SPEECHES
In January 2013 Rabbi Sacks delivered an address at the national Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's commemorative event for the final...
ARTICLES, ARTICLES
Our minds may be occupied at present with thoughts of matzah and all things Pesach, but this time next Wednesday evening and...
SPEECHES, STATEMENTS, SPEECHES
This speech was delivered by Rabbi Sacks at the National Holocaust Memorial Commemoration Ceremony in Hyde Park, London in May...
ARTICLES, ARTICLES
For the past two years, we have been engaged in a major experiment in Anglo-Jewry: finding a way of giving...
ARTICLES, ARTICLES
The echoing irony of the Holocaust is that we have still not found an adequate way of giving its remembrance...
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Today is National Holocaust Memorial Day, and this year the focus will be on one small group of people in...
SPEECHES
The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, visited the former Nazi death camp...
CREDO
Of the 6,000 languages spoken today, only one is truly universal: the language of tears. This weekend, tears will be...
SPEECHES, ARTICLES, SPEECHES
(From an address by Rabbi Sacks marking Yom HaShoah in 2000) The Holocaust has become more than a Jewish tragedy....
REFLECTIONS
Reflections from Rabbi Sacks’ following his first visit to Auschwitz in 1995 Until now, I’ve never been to Auschwitz. For...
