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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 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one-third of the Jewish people along with countless numbers of individuals of other minority groups, by ...
In Israel, it is a national memorial day. The first official commemorations took place in 1951, and the observance of the day was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959. It is held on the 27th of Nisan (which falls in April or May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to the Jewish Sabbath, in which case the date is shifted by a day. [3]
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established in 2005 according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and is observed on January 27 each year. It corresponds with the same ...
The Foreign Secretary will use a memorial event to call for a recommitment to ‘rid the world of the prejudice and hatred that persists today’. World must renew ‘never again’ Holocaust vow ...
Rabbi Moshe Hauer wrestles with the meaning of Holocaust Remembrance Day amidst the attacks on Israel and rising antisemitism.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Council (USHMC) was established in 1980 by Public Law 96-388 to coordinate an annual, national civic commemoration of the DRVH in Washington, D.C.; to oversee the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and to provide support for State and local civic ceremonies in each of the fifty states.
The Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center and Westchester Jewish Council present the Yom Hashoah Holocaust commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in White Plains May 6, 2024.