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Holocaust remembrance day april 27 20229/10/2023 ![]() ![]() International Holocaust Memorial Day is a more secular observance. This year, Yom HaShoah falls on April 17-April 18 (on the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a new day starts at sundown and ends the following sundown). Israel and many Jews in the Diaspora observe a separate Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day - Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah in Hebrew, shortened to Yom HaShoah colloquially - on the 27th day of the Hebrew calendar month of Nisan. “International Holocaust Remembrance Day is distinctive to me in that it is not a Jewish community commemoration - it’s an international day of remembrance, of learning, of reflection, unlike other times when this topic is prominent like Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, which commemorates the breaking of Jewish business and synagogue windows and is almost exclusively marked in Jewish communities,” said Executive Director of USC Hillel Dave Cohn, who served on the Advisory Committee. Tomorrow marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp complex Auschwitz-Birkenau. The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005. Friday, January 27 marks the first International Holocaust Remembrance Day since USC President Carol Folt announced acceptance of the Advisory Committee on Jewish Life’s final report.
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