Yom HaShoah
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Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah, known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is Israel's day of commemoration for the appro
"March of the Living" at Auschwitz, 2014
Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Flags at half mast at sundown on Yom HaShoah
Nisan
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Nisan or Nissan is the month of the barley ripening and the first month of spring in the Babylonian and Hebrew calendars. The name of the month is an Akkadian borrowing, although it is ultimately deri
Yom HaShoah
…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 (which 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…
The Seder Table the ritual feast in the Jewish holiday of Passover which occurs on the 15 Nisan.