2026 Days of Remembrance Commemoration
Congress created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and established annual Days of Remembrance to be held each spring. During this time, the Museum leads the national commemoration of the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust and the other victims of Nazi persecution. This year’s observance is especially important, given the continuing surge in violent antisemitism and increased Holocaust denial and distortion.
We also will mark America’s 250th birthday in 2026 by honoring Americans who rescued European Jews, US soldiers who defeated Nazi Germany during World War II, and Holocaust survivors who cherished the freedom they experienced after immigrating to the United States.
A group of young girls poses in a yard in the town of Eyshishok. German and Lithuanian forces murdered most of the Jews of Eyshishok in a mass shooting operation in September 1941 that claimed approximately 3,500 victims. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Shtetl Foundation