Holocaust Memorial Day: Never Again for Anyone
JVL Introduction
This year, Holocaust Memorial Day falls during dangerous times; it always has been dangerous for some people. On this day we, rightly, remember and honour the victims of the Nazis; but there was also resistance; as the Jewish Socialist Group say: “As Jewish socialists today, we take particular inspiration from the Bundist Marek Edelman, Second in Command of the Uprising. A socialist, an anti-Zionist, an internationalist and anti-nationalist all his life, he said of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: “We fought for dignity and freedom not for territory or a national identity.”
This statement not only remembers that there were other victims as well as the terrible enslavement, ghettoisation and murder of six million Jews but also that there were people, not obviously under threat who took risks to resist and to save people. And that this is highly relevant today and has always been. Remember also that the Nazis visited the USA to learn more about the Jim Crow laws and that these formed the basis of the Nuremberg laws that increasingly restricted the freedoms of Jewish people.
Today, as the statement notes resistance is inspiring and essential: “Donald Trump is unleashing murderous fascist-style forces against his own citizens, but masses of Americans are finding the courage to defend their diverse communities.” (my emph Ed)
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This article was originally published by Jewish Socialist Group website on Tue 27 Jan 2026. Read the original here.
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026: Jewish Socialists' Group statement
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So powerful so true so sad that these words are so needed now
The fact that the government of the state of Israel has to date been granted impunity by Western governments, including our own government, the government of Keir Starmer, to massacre and torture and imprison and starve Palestinians and destroy their housing, schools, hospitals, farmland and lives, must be stated loud and clear and condemned by us on Holocaust Memorial Day. There have been many holocausts — crimes against humanity — in history and many others are happening in the world today. Sudan and Ukraine for example. It is a mistake to claim or believe that only one of them mattered in the 20th century or still matters today more than any or all the others.