Yom HaShoah / יום השואה
Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day"), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews and five million others who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its accessories, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day and public holiday. It was inaugurated on 1953, anchored by a law signed by the Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion and the President of Israel Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. It is held on the 27th of Nisan (April/May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to Shabbat, in which case the date is shifted by a day.
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List of Dates
Yom HaShoah begins in the Diaspora on:- Wed, 18 April 2012 at sundown (27th of Nisan, 5772)
- Sun, 07 April 2013 at sundown (28th of Nisan, 5773)
- Sun, 27 April 2014 at sundown (28th of Nisan, 5774)
- Wed, 15 April 2015 at sundown (27th of Nisan, 5775)
- Wed, 04 May 2016 at sundown (27th of Nisan, 5776)
- Sun, 23 April 2017 at sundown (28th of Nisan, 5777)
- Wed, 11 April 2018 at sundown (27th of Nisan, 5778)
- Wed, 01 May 2019 at sundown (27th of Nisan, 5779)
- Mon, 20 April 2020 at sundown (27th of Nisan, 5780)
- Wed, 07 April 2021 at sundown (26th of Nisan, 5781)
Recommended Books
 The Third Seder by Irene Lilienheim Angelico |
References
- The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary
- Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
- "Yom HaShoah" in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
- Wikimedia Foundation Inc.