Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015

April 16, 2015 is the Day of Remembrance in commemoration of the Holocaust, also known as Yom HaShoah in Hebrew.

Please take a moment to remember those victims that lost their lives in this horrific event and pray for the survivors who live with the memories…

“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.” The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.”

– United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Learn more about the Holocaust Remembrance Day and why it is necessary to remember the Holocaust by visiting the USHMM website or the Yad Vashem website…

http://www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/index.asp