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Combatting Loneliness, Poverty, and Trauma in the Lives of Holocaust Survivors

Ellie Rudee

Crystal Hill

Yom HaShoah is also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day and occurs on the 27 th of the month of Nisan. It is a day to commemorate those who perished during the Holocaust and listen to survivors tell their stories. However, as the survivor population ages, many are needing more assistance.

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Yom HaShoah: The Remembrance of Many

Rabbi P.J. Schwartz

Yom HaShoah challenges the covenantal relationship between God and the Jewish people, forcing us to question God's presence in our lives, to struggle with the reality that our world remains filled with inequality, and to vow "Never again."

Remembering What We Wish We Could Forget

Rabbi Jeff Brown

Yom HaShoah is a day filled with paradoxes.

No One Superior

Rabbi Larry Karol

Seven candles are lit on the candle table on the bimah at our congregation on Yom HaShoah, the day of Holocaust Remembrance for victims and heroes of that challenging and tragic time in human history.

Remembering the Holocaust in Lithuania

Ellen Cassedy

The sight of neo-Nazis parading through Lithuania’s capital city in an unsanctioned march sent chills down the spines of many people both inside and outside this small Eastern European country – and rightfully so. Public expression of hatred in a land with a horrific Holocaust history is cause for alarm.

The Stone-Thrower, The Israel-Denier and Me

Rabbi Wendi Geffen

I sense the existence of one Am Yisrael – one Jewish people – on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day).

A Light that Will Never Go Out: Am Yisrael Chai

Claire Shimberg

This week, we mark Yom HaShoah (April 15-16) -- Holocaust Remembrance Day -- a day when Jewish communities gather together to commemorate the day through worship, music and stories from survivors and lighting yellow candles as symbol of the living memories of the victims. Yom HaShoah is a time to remember and reflect. It is also a time to also recommitment ourselves to fighting bigotry and anti-Semitism. And, for me, Yom HaShoah is a time to think about the notion of Jewish peoplehood.

Black and white photo of the German army marching to invade Poland

September 1, 1939: Another Day of Infamy

Rabbi A. James Rudin

It is worth remembering another day of infamy – September 1, 1939 – the day that set in motion the destruction of six million Jews. That date is a grim reminder of a wondrous Jewish world that would soon be no more.

(the) Holocaust

Hebrew Spelling

הָשׁוֹאָה

From the Greek word meaning "sacrifice by fire", the Holocaust refers to the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany in World War II, including the genocide of six million Jews.

Yom HaShoah

I Remember: A Poem for Yom HaShoah

Stacey Zisook Robinson, z"l

I remember the absence of sound,
deeper than silence
and more lonely,
like the moment just
before Creation,
all stretched and
attenuated, waiting,
except there was no time
to measure
eternity,
so waiting was
Now.