Remembrance Around the World
Directory
Compiled by Yad Vashem
| Argentina | Yom HaShoah recognized by Ministry of Education. Ceremony in Buenos Aires. |
| Asia | No Holocaust Memorial Day. Former Soviet States - May 9 commemorated. |
| Australia | No law passed. Yom HaShoah - Jewish Communities. |
| Belgium | Since 1998, May 8 annually marked victory of democracy over dictatorship. Commemoration of Victims of the Holocaust included in ceremonies. |
| Brazil | No federal law. May 8 -'Heroes'and Martyrs' Day'- Sao Paulo and other states. |
| Canada | No national law. Yom HaShoah commemorated in Ontario, Montreal and Quebec. |
| Columbia | No law passed. |
| Costa Rica | No law passed. |
| Czech Republic | May 3 - Commemoration of Victims of Nazism. Government ceremony at Terezin. |
| Denmark | No official day. May 4, and November 9 - Ceremonies. November 1998 - Danish Government established organization for Holocaust research and remembrance. |
| Ecuador | No law passed. |
| Estonia | No law passed. |
| Finland | Unofficial - November 9 marked by educational institutions and media. (1998 - suggestion by a member of the Finnish Parliament that a Holocaust Remembrance Day be passed by European Parliament.) |
| Former Yugoslavia | No law passed. Yom HaShoah - Jewish Community. May 9 -'Victory Day' -commemorating victims of Fascism. |
| France | July 16 - Commemoration of destruction of French Jewry. Implemented by J. Chirac, 1995. |
| Germany | January 27 - Commemoration of Victims of Nazism. State ceremonies, flags lowered, ceremony in the Bundestag. Also November 9 - Commemoration. |
| Greece | Yom HaShoah - Jewish Community. (Media coverage.) |
| Holland | May 4 -Remembrance Day - official. No specific mention of Holocaust victims. |
| Hungary | No law passed. Each Hungarian-Jewish community marks a different date. |
| Ireland | Yom HaShoah - Jewish Community. Participation of Government invited. |
| Israel | Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day). |
| Italy | Parliament expected to pass law - January 27 - Holocaust Remembrance Day. |
| Lithuania | September 29- Ceremony by Jewish Community at Ponar. Government flags fly with black banners. No school curriculum and little media coverage. |
| Mexico | No law passed. |
| Norway | November 26 - Jewish community in Bergen commemorates ten Jews who died whilst incarcerated - October 22-November 26, 1942. |
| Paraguay | No law passed. Yom HaShoah - Jewish Community. |
| Peru | No law passed. |
| Poland | April 19 - Jewish Community. Polish revolt of August '44 commemorated annually. |
| Portugal | Currently no day of commemoration observed. |
| Romania | No national day. Yom HaShoah covered by media. |
| Russia | No law passed. |
| San Domingo | No law passed. |
| Spain | Currently no day of commemoration observed. |
| Sweden | Committee to mark national Remembrance Day. Likely to be January 27. |
| Switzerland | Yom HaShoah - Jewish Community. |
| Ukraine | No national day. September 29 (Kiev) - Babi Yar Memorial. |
| UK | Holocaust Remembrance Day to be January 27. |
| Uruguay | No law passed. Yom HaShoah - Jewish Community. |
| USA | Yom HaShoah - (federal law, 1980) Official ceremony in Capitol Building. |
| Venezuela | No law passed. |