Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Ha-Shoah)

Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Ha-Shoah)

Posted on 21. Apr, 2009 by emposha in Uncategorized

The full name of the day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust is “Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah”— literally the “Day of (remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism.” It is marked on the 27th day in the month of Nisan — a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers). It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

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