Holocaust Remembrance Day
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- In feast: National and local festivals
In Israel, Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the systematic destruction of European Jews by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ’40s.
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Holocaust remembrance days
- In Holocaust remembrance days
…Heroism Remembrance Day), colloquially called Yom ha-Shoʾah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), marking not only destruction but resistance, seemingly giving them equal prominence.
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Jewish religious year
- In Judaism: The situation today
Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day)—marking the systematic destruction of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945 and recalling the short-lived ghetto uprisings—is observed officially on Nisan 27, but many religious Israelis prefer to observe it on Ṭebet 10 (a fast day), now called Yom HaKaddish Haklali…
Read More - In Jewish religious year: The situation today
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)—marking the systematic destruction of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945 and recalling the short-lived Ghetto uprisings—is commemorated officially on Nisan 27; many religious Israelis prefer to commemorate it on Ṭevet 10 (a fast day) now called Yom HaQaddish (day upon which the…
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