On the Calendar: Sunset Tuesday, May 1-8, 2011
OBSERVANCE | SARAH WEINER
Biblical/Hebrew Calendar: Sivan 6, 5771
Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance
“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever
paid to Reason.” —Justice Robert Jackson,
Chief U.S. Counsel to the International Military Tribunal,
Nuremberg, Germany, November 21, 1945
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Yom Hashoah in Israel In 1951 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Presi- dent Yitzhak Ben-Zvi inaugurated Yom Hashoah (“Te Day of Remembering the Destruction”) in Israel. Yom Hashoah opens at sundown in a state ceremony held at the Warsaw Gheto Plaza at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes Remembrance Authority, in Je- rusalem. During the ceremony, the national flag is low- ered to half-staff, the President and the Prime Minister deliver speeches, Holocaust survivors light six torches symbolizing the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and the Chief Rabbis recite prayers. At 10:00 a.m. on Yom Hashoah, sirens are sounded throughout Israel for two minutes. During this time, people cease from action and stand at atention; cars stop, even on the highways; and the entire country comes to a standstill as people pay silent tribute to the dead. Yom Hashoah services are held at schools, mili- tary bases, and in other community organizations.
Yom Hashoah in the United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) as a permanent living memorial
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