Yom HaShoah 2014

Today, April 27 2014,  Yom HaShoah begins at sunset and ends at sunset on  April 28, 2014. 

Yom HaShoah is one of three Holocaust Rememberance Days. January 27 is the UN-declared day; it is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in 1945.

YomHaShoah is the day declared by the State of Israel; it falls on 27th of Nisan.  

The third day is the 10th of Tevet, the memorial day for Holocaust victims whose date of death is unknown.  The Jewish Virtual Library has an array of suggestions. 

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has selected is Confronting the Holocaust: American Responses. 

I will be watching a documentary by a group of California high school students, We Must Remember. More on We Must Remember and the order site.

From the gallery, World War II, the Holocaust, http://wodumedia.com/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/

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The Holocaust's foremost unsung hero

The story of the Glass House is one of the most fascinating historical events of that era. Much like the man behind the operation, Kraus, this event has somehow evaded public attention and never received the recognition it deserved. The Beit Haedut museum in Nir Galim has recently built a replica of the Glass House, in efforts to right this historical wrong. The forgotten story is now beginning to shed its anonymity thanks to the initiative of Ariel Bariach, the head of the museum.

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For future reference from  United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem:

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Yom HaShoah dates:

2015 Thursday, April 16
2016 Thursday, May 5
2017 Monday, April 24
2018 Thursday, April 12
2019 Thursday, May 2
2020 Tuesday, April 21

Day of Rememberance 10th Tevet
5775 2015 January 1

5776 2015 December 22

5777 2017 January 8

5778 2017 December 28

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[LIz Ditz]

As she began translating her father’s words, she quickly discovered that these were stories she had never heard before, stories he hadn’t told her when he was sick with cancer. They were stories about the early months of Birkenau’s existence, when Isaia and his fellow prisoners built the very barracks and fences and ditches and latrines that she would later encounter during her own time in the camp in late 1944. They were stories about his involvement in the Auschwitz underground. They were riveting, terrifying stories, told in gruesome detail, about the unbearable torture and beatings he endured and the numerous times when death seemed certain.

My Great-Grandfather's Holocaust memoir

[LIz Ditz]

"Although more than half a century passed since the greatest atrocity humankind has experienced in the 20th century, Jews are still the target of hate crimes involved with physical violence which ends with their death."

"We call upon all those who cherish human life and rights to put an end to hate and violence against Jews worldwide. Let's prevent history from repeating itself."

http://youtu.be/_3ldWwT_Hwk

[LIz Ditz]

"I remember my mother sitting reading a letter one evening and weeping as my father held and comforted her. It was bad news from Prague: my mother’s family was in danger from the Germans or had already been taken to a camp. Her large family spent some time in Terezin before all finishing in Auschwitz."

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/28/memories-of-war-part-i-guest-p/