(JEWISH GROUP) What is Yom HaShoah? How do we commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day?

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Yom HaShoah, 4-23 - 4/24/2025

Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah (Hebrew: יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, lit. 'Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day'), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה ) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its allies, and for the Jewish resistance in that period.[2] In Israel, it is a national memorial day. The first 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.[3]
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When is Yom Hashoah 2025?
Yom Hashoah begins the evening of Wednesday, April 23, 2025, and ends in the evening of Thursday, April 24, 2025.

How is Yom Hashoah commemorated?
The day is commemorated across the Jewish world with services, ceremonies, educational programs, testimonials from survivors and with the lighting of yahrzeit (memorial) candles. In Israel, TV and radio stations air Holocaust programming, and the entire country comes to a standstill as a nationwide siren blares:

The organization Our 6 Million (Shem Vener) started a custom of lighting a personal memorial candle in memory of one of the 6 million who perished. You choose who to remember — a relative, a hero or a person by chance — and reflect on and discuss the life of the person you are remembering.

Why was the 27th of Nisan chosen as the date?
The date for Yom Hashoah was chosen based on the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, due to the fact that it represented resistance, strength and heroism.

The uprising actually began on the 15th of Nisan, the first day of Passover — Rabbi Shlomo Brody notes that “27 Nisan was chosen as a date comfortably between the end of the holiday [Passover] and Israel Independence Day (5 Iyar).”

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943