The main memorial event begins at sunset in Warsaw Ghetto Square in Israel. Since Yom HaShoah is held in the memory of those who were killed in the Holocaust, several memorial services are held all over the world at sundown. This year, Yom HaShoah accordingly starts at sunset time on Wednesday, April 27 and ends on Thursday evening, April 28. So, the Hebrew calendar suggests the 27th of Nisan as the first month.Ībove all, if there is any clash of dates between the Yom HaShoah and the Jewish Sabbath, the former's date is adjusted accordingly. The name comes from the Hebrew word 'shoah', which means 'whirlwind'.Īdhering to the date in the Hebrew calendar, the first official commemoration was held in 1951.Įvery year, Yom HaShoah occurs on April 27 because it follows the Hebrew calendar, which naturally differs from the standard Gregorian calendar. On this memorial day, Jews commemorate the six million Jewish people who were killed in the Holocaust between 19. All Elmendorf personnel are invited to attend.įor more information about the Holocaust or the Days of Remembrance observance, please visit United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website ( name 'Yom HaShoah' is derived from the Hebrew word 'shoah'.
The 3rd Wing is hosting a Holocaust memorial service Tuesday, April 21st at 4:00 p.m. The Holocaust demonstrates one of the greatest lessons about individual responsibility-that each of us has the choice to act or not to act, and there are consequences to our decisions. When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday. This dehumanization of the Jews culminated in the Holocaust (Shoah). BCPS celebrates Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah every April. German Jews were systematically stripped of their citizenship and basic human rights. The theme for this year's Days of Remembrance is Never Again: What You Do Matters.Īlthough many German citizens disapproved of the events of those days, very few took action to try to stop the violence. The word Shoah is Hebrew and when translated means "a great catastrophe". Some people object to using this term, as it suggests some sort of sacrificial or religious significance to the event. Holocaust is from an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures and originally meant a sacrificial offering that was burnt completely, until nothing was left. While Holocaust is the common name used for this tragedy since the 1960s among the English-speaking world the event was historically referred to as Shoah by the Jews themselves, which has a slightly different meaning. The Jews were not the only victims of Hitter's regime, but they were the only group that the Nazis sought to annihilate. Between the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 and the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Nazi Germany and its accomplices strove to murder every Jew under their domination.īecause Nazi persecution of the Jews began with Hitter's accession to power in January 1933, many historians consider this the start of the Holocaust era. The Holocaust was the systematic murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
This year's observance falls during the week of April 19 through April 26, with April 21 being the actual Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah in Hebrew. Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation's annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust.
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