Israel: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Part of a
sculpture by artist Kenneth Treister is seen during Yom HaShoah-Holocaust
Remembrance Day.
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 accessories, and for
the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day.
It was inaugurated in 1953, anchored by a law signed by the Prime Minister of
Israel David Ben-Gurion and the President of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. It is held
on the 27th of Nisan (April/May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to Shabbat,
in which case the date is shifted by a day. In other countries there are
different commemorative days.
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