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Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts. [21] [22] Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. [21]Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
[1] [2] It was designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005. [3] The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff delivers invocation at national DRVH ceremony, Capitol Rotunda, April 27, 1987. The Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust (DRVH) is an annual eight-day period designated by the United States Congress for civic commemorations and special educational programs that help citizens remember and draw lessons from the Holocaust.
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival held on a 600-acre (2.4-km 2) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.Thirty-two acts performed during the sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.
Set up to gather testimonies from Holocaust survivors, the Shoah Foundation is now gathering experiences from witnesses and survivors of Hamas’ attacks on Israelis. October 7 was the deadliest ...
A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration.
The prevalence of antisemitism in German society was widely known by the 1930s, [12] but citizens of the United States were unaware that the Holocaust was taking place for the first year. [13] Several individuals attempted to contact the government of the United States and other governments to inform them of the Holocaust after it began in 1941.