HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
Members of a Jewish family say goodbye to a child through a fence in the central prison of the ghetto, where children, the sick, the elderly were brought before the deportation to the Chelmno extermination camp during the "Gehsperre. Lodz, Poland, September 1942.
Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה yom hash-sho'āh), or Holocaust Remembrance Day "happens on the 27th of Nisan of the Hebrew calendar. This day is remembered annually as a day of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust, being official commemoration in Israel.
Originally, the day proposed for this event was the 15th of Nisan, the anniversary of the revolt of the Warsaw Ghetto (April 19, 1943), but this was rejected due to coincide with the first day of Passover. The 27th was chosen because eight days before the commemoration of Yom Ha'atzmaut, Independence Day of Israel. The Yom HaShoah was established in 1959 as a law in Israel and approved by David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.
At 10:00 am on Yom HaShoah, air sirens sound for two minutes. Public transport vehicles stop for this time period and people are silent. During the Yom HaShoah, public establishments closed and all flags are at half mast. (Source Wikipedia).
Link: Holocaust Encyclopedia
