Each year, the Program in Jewish Studies along with the Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History recognize Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) with a public reading of the names of European Jews ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established in 2005 according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and is observed on January 27 each year. It correspo ...

Yom HaShoah, which was first observed in Israel in 1951 and became enshrined into law later in the decade, is viewed by many Jewish communities around the world as their primary day for Holocaust ...

Recent additions to the American Jewish calendar have come from Israel, like Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day), passed into Israeli law in the ...

As the Jewish Virtual Library reported, Yom HaShoah was established in 1951 (confirmed by law in 1959) in Israel, and falls on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Because this is where ...