This shared date should stir more than remembrance. It should inspire a deep sense of kinship between two ancient peoples who have both endured existential trauma.
Springsteen performed solo acoustic versions of “Dancing in the Dark” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad.”
Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, gains added significance amidst the Israel-Hamas war, commemorating the October 7 attack as "a sample of the Holocaust."
It is proposed that every year on Tishrei 24 there will be a national memorial day to commemorate the events that took place on October 7, including a state ceremony.
Rep. Gottheimer (NJ-5) introduced the legislation with his colleagues Chu (California-28), Cohen (Tennessee-9), Schrier (Washington-8), and Raskin (Maryland-8) in honor of Yom HaShoah.
Pilot Doron Ginzburg referenced Yom Hashoah and said “[t]hings like the Holocaust are potentially to be occurring in a dictatorship, and we are fighting in Israel to remain a democratic country."
The president also proclaimed April 16-April 23, 2023 as a week of observance of the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust.
US Secretary of State Blinken told the story of his stepfather Samuel Pisar, the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust.
Marking 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Hillary and Chelsea Clinton produced a documentary about a Holocaust survivor that will debut on PBS on Tuesday, timed to Yom Hashoah.
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