Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2023
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Holocaust Martyrs' & Heroes' Remembrance Day 2023

  •   This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
  • 4/17/2023
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    The central theme for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust: Marking 80 Years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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    ​​Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized. It is a solemn day, beginning at sunset on the 27th of the Hebrew month of Nisan and ending the following evening, according to the traditional Jewish custom of marking a day. Places of entertainment are closed, and memorial ceremonies are held throughout the country. 

    The central ceremonies, in the evening and the following morning, are held at Yad Vashem and are broadcast live. Marking the start of the day, in the presence of the President of the State of Israel and the Prime Minister, dignitaries, survivors, children of survivors and their families, gather together with the general public to take part in the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem in which six torches, representing the six million murdered Jews, are lit. 

    The following morning, the ceremony at Yad Vashem begins with the sounding of a siren for two minutes throughout the entire country. For the duration of the sounding, work is halted, people walking in the streets stop, cars pull off to the side of the road and everybody stands at silent attention in reverence to the victims of the Holocaust. Afterward, the focus of the ceremony at Yad Vashem is the laying of wreaths at the foot of the six torches, by dignitaries and the representatives of survivor groups and institutions. 

    Other sites of remembrance in Israel, such as the Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz and Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, also host memorial ceremonies, as do schools, military bases, municipalities and places of work.

    Throughout the day, programs about the Holocaust will be broadcast on radio and television. In recent years, other countries and Jewish communities have adopted Yom Hashoah, the 27th of Nisan, to mark their own day of memorial for the victims of the Holocaust.

    Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2023 will be on Tuesday, April 18th. The State Opening Ceremony will be held at Yad Vashem on Monday, April 17th at 20:00. This year is the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The theme of this year’s Holocaust memorial will focus on Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, marking 80 Years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.