![]() VIDEO: “Why We Remember the Holocaust,” (8:54), U.S. ![]() The Alabama Holocaust Education Center (AHEC) officially commemorates the Holocaust with a community event during the Days of Remembrance.ĭays of Remembrance, U.S. ![]() The Days of Remembrance run from the Sunday before Holocaust Remembrance Day ( Yom HaShoah) through the following Sunday and are observed by state and local governments, military bases, workplaces, schools, churches, synagogues, and civic centers. Holocaust Memorial Museum is responsible for leading the nation in commemorating the Days of Remembrance, and for encouraging and sponsoring appropriate observances throughout the United States. By VANESSA GERA and SAMUEL PETREQUIN JanuWARSAW, Poland (AP) Survivors recalled their agony to a world they fear is forgetting, Israel’s parliamentary speaker wept in the German parliament and politicians warned of a resurgence of antisemitism on Thursday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust. There is no institutionalized ritual for Yom HaShoah, but generally, memorial candles are lit and the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the departed, is recited. The date was moved to the 27th of Nisan, which is eight days before Israeli Independence Day. The original proposal was to hold Yom HaShoah on the 14th of Nisan, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943), but this was problematic because the 14th of Nisan is the day immediately before the Jewish holiday of Passover. This date was selected by the Israeli Parliament on April 12, 1951. ![]() Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) occurs each year on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan (sometime in April or May) to remember the victims and honor the survivors of the Holocaust. ![]()
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