Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust remembrance day and Heroes' Remembrance day.
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized. It is a solemn day, beginning at sunset on the 27th of the month of Nisan and ending the following evening, according to the traditional Jewish custom of marking a day. Places of entertainment are closed and memorial ceremonies are held throughout the country. The central ceremonies, in the evening and the following morning, are held at Yad Vashem and are broadcast on the television. Marking the start of the day-in the presence of the President of the State of Israel and the Prime Minister dignitaries, survivors, children of survivors and their families, gather together with the general public to take part in the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem in which six torches, representing the six million murdered Jews, are lit. The following morning, the ceremony at Yad Vashem begins with the sounding of a siren for two minutes throughout the entire country. For the duration of the sounding, work is halted, people walking in the streets stop, cars pull off to the side of the road and everybody stands at silent attention in reverence to the victims of the Holocaust.
Here are some links:
Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2005
Sharon to take part in march of the living
Sharon's says using Holocaust symbols to protest pullout is a very grave error
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Speech at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Martyrs & Heroes Remembrance Day
UPDATE
Also take a look at this column by Carline Glick. Glick reminds us that we can now defend ourselves, in our land, with our military and economic creativity. The article deals with the moral relativism and revisionism associated with many who will self righteously bow their heads for our exterminated brothers and sisters at the UN General Assembly and various other places: The Holocaust Fetish.
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