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‘Yom Hashoah is a day set aside for Jews to remember’
(5 May 2024)
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Dear Reader:
Yom Hashoah is a day set aside for Jews to remember.
Please take a moment of your day today to remember the people who lost their lives.
– Sharon
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Date: 27th day of Nisan[a]
2023 date: Sunset, 17 April – nightfall, 18 April[1]
2024 date: Sunset, 5 May – nightfall, 6 May[1]
2025 date: Sunset, 23 April – nightfall, 24 April[1]
2026 date: Sunset, 13 April – nightfall, 14 April[1]
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Sharon Nichols
23 Apr 2020
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Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2020 in Israel began in the evening of April 20 and ended in the evening of April 21
– Sharon
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/holydays/yomhashoa.shtml
What is the meaning of Yom HaShoah?
Yom Hashoah is a day set aside for Jews to remember the Holocaust. The name comes from the Hebrew word ‘shoah’, which means ‘whirlwind’.
Yom Hashoah was established in Israel in 1959 by law. It falls on the 27th of the Jewish month of Nissan, a date chosen because it is the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Yom Hashoah ceremonies include the lighting of candles for Holocaust victims, and listening to the stories of survivors. Religious ceremonies include prayers such as Kaddish for the dead and the El Maleh Rahamim, a memorial prayer.
In Israel Yom Hashoah is one of the most solemn days of the year. It begins at sunset on 26th Nissan and ends, like all traditional Jewish special days, the following evening. During Yom Hashoah memorial events are held throughout the country, with national ceremonies being held at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. (Yad Vashem is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million.)
On the morning of Yom Hashoah a siren is sounded for 2 minutes throughout Israel and all work and other activity stops while people remember those killed in the Holocaust.
Religions – Judaism: Yom Hashoah – BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk > yomhashoah
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/holydays/yomhashoa.shtml
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(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaShoah)
Why is Yom HaShoah in April?
There are a number of Holocaust Memorial Days; though not all on the same day.
Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (Hebrew: יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, lit. ‘Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day’), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. 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 (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.
The first Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel took place on December 28, 1949, following a decision of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that an annual memorial should take place on the Tenth of Tevet, a traditional day of mourning and fasting in the Hebrew calendar. The day was marked by the burial in a Jerusalem cemetery of ashes and bones of thousands of Jews brought from the Flossenbürg concentration camp and religious ceremonies held in honor of the victims. A radio program on the Holocaust was broadcast that evening. The following year, in December 1950, the Rabbinate, organizations of former European Jewish communities and the Israel Defense Forces held memorial ceremonies around the country; they mostly involved funerals, in which objects such as desecrated Torah scrolls and the bones and ashes of the dead brought from Europe were interred.
In 1951, the Knesset began deliberations to choose a date for Holocaust Remembrance Day. On April 12, 1951, after also considering as possibilities the Tenth of Tevet, the 14th of Nisan, which is the day before Passover and the day on which the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943) began, and September 1, the date on which the Second World War began, the Knesset passed a resolution establishing the 27 Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, a week after Passover, and eight days before Israel Independence Day as the annual Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day.
On May 3, 1951, the first officially organized Holocaust Remembrance Day event was held at the Chamber of the Holocaust on Mount Zion; the Israel Postal Service issued a special commemorative envelope, and a bronze statue of Mordechai Anielewicz, the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, was unveiled at Yad Mordechai, a kibbutz named for him. From the following year, the lighting of six beacons in memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis became a standard feature of the official commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day.
On April 8, 1959, the Knesset officially established the day when it passed the Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day Law with the purpose of instituting an annual “commemoration of the disaster which the Nazis and their collaborators brought upon the Jewish people and the acts of heroism and revolt performed.” The law was signed by the Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, and the President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. It established that the day would be observed by a two-minute silence when all work would come to a halt throughout the country, memorial gatherings and commemorative events in public and educational institutions would be held, flags would be flown at half mast, and programs relevant to the day would be presented on the radio and in places of entertainment. An amendment to the law in 1961 mandated that cafes, restaurants and clubs be closed on the day.
Also called
Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Observed by
State of Israel
many Jews elsewhere
Type
Jewish (national)
Significance
Commemorating the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and the heroism of survivors and rescuers
Observances
Flags lowered to half-mast, public places of entertainment closed; national opening ceremony and closing ceremonies; siren at 10:00 signaling the start of two minutes of silence;
Date
27th day of Nisan
2020 date
sunset, April 20 – nightfall, April 21.
2021 date
sunset, April 8 – nightfall, April 9.
2022 date
sunset, April 27 – nightfall, April 28.
Yom HaShoah – Wikipedia
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_HaShoah)
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‘March of the Living’ at Auschwitz.
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Donna K. Ellis
We will never forget.
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Laura May
Movie on Netflix about the savage Holocost
“Playing For Time”
I began it today, overwhelmingly sad
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Never forget!
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Religion is irrational
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