Yom HaShoah Social Justice Guide
Here are some ways to incorporate social justice themes into your Yom HaShoah observance.
Holocaust
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day)
Yom HaShoah is officially known as Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day.
The Holocaust (Shoah)
The Shoah (also known as the Holocaust, from a Greek word meaning "sacrifice by fire,") was initiated by the members of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party, which seized power in Germany in 1933.
Yom HaShoah History
Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, occurs on the 27 th of Nisan.
The Politics of Apology
Seventeen years ago, I discovered the horrible fate that had befallen twenty-six of my relatives. On July 10, 1941, just days after Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union and took over northeastern Poland, practically the entire Jewish population of a town called Jedwabne--as many as 1,600 men, women, and children--were brutally murdered.
