The United Nations has announced new actions to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination.

President Isaac Herzog to address Special UN Assembly marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, meet with UN Secretary-General António Guterres for the first time since the beginning of the current conflict.

Anti-Semitism is "rampant" 80 years after the Holocaust, the UN's rights chief Volker Turk said Friday, also denouncing increasing attacks on diversity as US leader Donald Trump rolls back inclusion measures in the United States.

Holocaust survivor and educator Marianne Miller will address the United Nations General Assembly on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This firefight is taking place inside a high-tech simulation room at the IDF’s Elyakim combat training base, about 30 kilometers southwest of Haifa. While the battle is computer simulated, the instructions are very real. Israeli troops are trained here to avoid attacks on civilians who pose no threat.

Farmington Hills’ Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) will present a two-day series of events marking the occasion, on Sunday and Monday.

Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then international testimony projects emerged, the largest being the ongoing Visual History Archive which has interviewed close to 60,000 survivors, including of more recent genocides such as that in Rwanda.

It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust victims went through.

Monday, the world will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a Nazi extermination camp in occupied Poland.

Many Holocaust victims were not murdered in concentration camps, but in mass shootings elsewhere. The Polish organization Zapomniane wants to keep the memory of the “Dispersed Holocaust” alive.

REMEMBRANCE DAY IS JANUARY 27TH, AND IT HAS A SPECIAL MEANING THIS YEAR AS A WORLD RECOGNIZES 80 YEARS SINCE THE LIBERATION OF THE AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, WE SPOKE TO A UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PROFESSOR ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF REMEMBERING AND WHY LEARNING ABOUT THE ATROCITIES THAT WERE INFLICTED ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE MUST CONTINUE TO BE TAUGHT TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) invites the community to commemorate the lives of six million Jews and countless other