January 27, 2026
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Habonim Dror North America remembers the six million Jews, each one of them of blessed memory, murdered because of antisemitic hatred and persecution. As antisemitism and extremism rise, we recommit ourselves to remembrance and to the responsibility of naming and confronting antisemitism in our time.
Yizkor
by Abba Kovner
Let us remember our brothers and our sisters
the homes in the cities and houses in the villages
The streets of the town that bustled like rivers
And the inn standing solitary on the way.
The old man with his etched-out features, the mother in her sweater, the girl with the plaits
And the children.
The thousands of communities of Israel with their families
The whole Jewish people
That was brought to the slaughter on the soil of Europe…
Let us not rest.
May our lives be worthy of their memory.
“No storm can destroy the seed planted deeply in the ground.”
– Yitzhak “Antek” Zuckerman