2024 National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance

Each year during Days of Remembrance, the nation commemorates the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust and the other victims of Nazi persecution. The 2024 national ceremony will feature a keynote address by President Joseph Biden. Every president since the Museum opened in 1993 has delivered the keynote address at a Days of Remembrance ceremony. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will also participate in this important event. The combined presence of these leaders is an important statement to our nation at this very challenging moment of alarming antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
Preserving the memory of the victims-while also honoring survivors, rescuers, and liberators-provides an opportunity to learn about how and why the Holocaust happened and to reflect on our common humanity. Their history warns us of the consequences when antisemitism remains unchecked and inspires people everywhere to confront hatred.
The one-hour ceremony will take place in the US Capitol Visitors Center’s Emancipation Hall. Holocaust survivors as well as members of Congress, the administration, the diplomatic corps, and Museum supporters from across the country will be in attendance. The US Army Band will perform, and all attendees will pay tribute to the victims.
Comments on this program are turned off due to the solemn nature of the Days of Remembrance ceremony.
1:27 Prelude
6:17 Processional of Holocaust Survivors
12:57 Allan M. Holt, Vice Chair, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
18:23 Processional and Presentation of Division Flags
22:15 Presentation of the Colors
23:26 The National Anthem
24:47 Retirement of the Colors
25:53 The Honorable Mike Johnson, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
36:02 The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives
42:26 Ambassador (ret.) Stuart E. Eizenstat, Chair, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
55:17 Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States
1:11:36 Memorial Candle Lighting
1:14:48 Survivor Names Reading
1:18:19 Mourner’s Kaddish
1:19:51 El Maley Rachamim
1:23:11 Abraham Foxman, Holocaust Survivor and Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
1:32:37 Sara J. Bloomfield, Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
1:36:01 Hymn of the Partisans and Retirement of Division Flags