Yom Hashoah begins this evening and continues till tomorrow evening. As this says: "The full name of the day commemorating the victims of the Holocaust is “Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah“– literally the “Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism.” It is marked on the 27th day in the month of Nisan — a week after the seventh day of Passover, and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers)." 27 Nisan, which is a lunar date, falls on April 27-28 this year. As I understand it, the Israeli government first established the day to coincide with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943, when 35,000 Jews staged a resistance against the Nazis that lasted nearly a month.
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