International Holocaust Remembrance Day Events Hosted by the Office of the Dean of Students and Community Partners
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). The date marks the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi鈥檚 largest concentration and extermination camp.
IHRD helps keep vital lessons from history alive in public memory and can help strengthen our abilities recognize and resist dehumanization and the subtle, mundane means by which atrocities sometimes occur.
Below are two local Holocaust Remembrance Day events that will bring the history to life:
January 25th, 5:00 PM:听 For听International Holocaust Remembrance Day, join the Montreal Holocaust Museum for the Montreal premiere of the documentary film 鈥淓lie Wiesel: Soul on Fire.鈥�听The screening will be followed by a discussion with his son,听Elisha Wiesel, who continues to uphold his father鈥檚 humanitarian legacy through his work as Chairman of the Board at the Elie Wiesel Foundation.听Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, we seek to understand the man behind Elie Wiesel鈥檚 searing and widely read memoir Night. Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire penetrates to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)鈥攈is passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives, original interviews and employing hand-painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel鈥檚 biography as a survivor, writer, teacher, public figure and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Tickets are $10, and
January 27, 2026, 5:00-6:30 PM: 海角社区 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorative Lecture听(organized by the Office of the Dean of Students) Professor Aliza Luft, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles. Professor Luft will share her research on the Holocaust in France in a lecture titled 鈥淏etween God and Vichy: Religion, Race, and the Holocaust in France." Professor Luft's research examines the fluctuating relationships between social identity, ideology, and interpersonal, socio-political action in contexts marked by war and violence. Her book, Sacred Betrayal: How the French Catholic Church Broke Its Pledge to Protect Jews During the Holocaust, is forthcoming with Harvard University Press in Fall 2026. Location:听Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish.
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