
Roses are placed on the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany Photograph: Maja Hitij/Getty Images
Holocaust Remembrance Day – in pictures
Holocaust Remembrance Day – in pictures
Source: The Guardian
As the pandemic has forced the cancellation of most large gatherings, many institutions including the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum in Poland, Yad Vashem museum in Israel and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC are marking Holocaust Remembrance Day this year with online events

Marina Weisband, a Ukrainian-born Jew, delivers a speech at the German Bundestag in Berlin during a special meeting commemorating victims of the Holocaust
Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA

Roses with a note saying #weremember have been placed at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Germany’s parliamentary vice-president, Claudia Roth, takes a moment to reflect at the Memorial for Victims of Nazi Euthanasia Killings in Berlin
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

As the pandemic has forced the cancellation of most large gatherings, many institutions including the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum in Poland, Yad Vashem museum in Israel and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC are marking Holocaust Remembrance Day this year with online events

Marina Weisband, a Ukrainian-born Jew, delivers a speech at the German Bundestag in Berlin during a special meeting commemorating victims of the Holocaust
Photograph: Clemens Bilan/EPA

Roses with a note saying #weremember have been placed at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Germany’s parliamentary vice-president, Claudia Roth, takes a moment to reflect at the Memorial for Victims of Nazi Euthanasia Killings in Berlin
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Visitors look at portraits of Holocaust survivors by photographer Stefan Hanke in Erfurt, eastern Germany
Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images

A woman stands in front of a memorial to gay people persecuted under Nazism, in Berlin
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP
Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images

A woman stands in front of a memorial to gay people persecuted under Nazism, in Berlin
Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

Visitors walk away from the main gate, bearing the inscription To Each His Own, at the memorial site of the former Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany
Wreaths on a commemorative plaque at the site of the Buchenwald camp
Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images

Soldiers at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland
Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty Images

A historic tram is marked with the Star of David in Warsaw, Poland
Photograph: Radek Pietruszka/EPA

Photograph: Jens Schlueter/AFP/Getty Images

Soldiers at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland
Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty Images

A historic tram is marked with the Star of David in Warsaw, Poland
Photograph: Radek Pietruszka/EPA

A woman stands by the the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland
Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty Images

Greece’s president laid a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial for Greek Jews in Athens
Photograph: Alexander Beltes/EPA

Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty Images

Greece’s president laid a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial for Greek Jews in Athens
Photograph: Alexander Beltes/EPA

A woman walks past a sculpture at the Holocaust Memorial in Thessaloniki, Greece
Photograph: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images

Students learn about the Nazi raid on a Jewish neighbourhood in Rome, Italy, on 16 October 1943 when more than 1,000 Jewish men, women and children were taken from their homes and sent to Auschwitz
Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Brass cobblestones in Rome are engraved with the names of Jews taken from their homes by the Nazis
Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Photograph: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP/Getty Images

Students learn about the Nazi raid on a Jewish neighbourhood in Rome, Italy, on 16 October 1943 when more than 1,000 Jewish men, women and children were taken from their homes and sent to Auschwitz
Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Brass cobblestones in Rome are engraved with the names of Jews taken from their homes by the Nazis
Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

People pay tribute to Holocaust victims in Milan, Italy
Photograph: Mourad Balti Touati/EPA

Holocaust survivors wear face masks and keep a safe distance from each other while attending a ceremony in the northern Israeli city of Haifa
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

A woman lights a candle during a memorial ceremony at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, Russia
Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

Lev Atlas, the principal viola at the Scottish Opera Orchestra, performs a new piece of music based on a Russian Gypsy folk melody, at the Roma Holocaust Memorial in Queen’s Park, Glasgow
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

A rose is placed on the stone in the Holocaust Memorial Garden in Hyde Park, London
Photograph: Ian West/PA

Photograph: Mourad Balti Touati/EPA

Holocaust survivors wear face masks and keep a safe distance from each other while attending a ceremony in the northern Israeli city of Haifa
Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

A woman lights a candle during a memorial ceremony at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, Russia
Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

Lev Atlas, the principal viola at the Scottish Opera Orchestra, performs a new piece of music based on a Russian Gypsy folk melody, at the Roma Holocaust Memorial in Queen’s Park, Glasgow
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

A rose is placed on the stone in the Holocaust Memorial Garden in Hyde Park, London
Photograph: Ian West/PA

Sir Lindsay Hoyle and MPs hold a ceremony in the House of Commons in London
Photograph: Jessica Taylor
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Photograph: Jessica Taylor
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