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Holocaust remembrance day january11/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "Our Department of Homeland Security is proud to keep our great country safe and secure, and to help build a world in which acts of hate no longer occur. On this day of remembrance, let us think of the meaning of home and belonging, draw upon our proudest traditions, and build a greater refuge of tolerance and understanding. That is the definition of a community of people, which is what and who we are. Violinist Michael Shaham performs a musical piece on a Violin of Hope at the United Nations Observance of International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust under the. When an act of hate is committed against one, it affects us all. We are experiencing an increase in acts of hate across our country, some of which have caused great tragedy. "This day is of great importance to our nation. Those who survived found refuge – a new home, a new place to belong – from which they could build a new life, hold dear and everlasting the memory of those lost, and create a better world for others. "The theme for this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day is “home and belonging.” The victims of the Holocaust had their homes and their sense of belonging taken from them. Her experience with such tragedy shaped my upbringing and my understanding of the fragility of life, the human capacity for cruelty and for beneficence, the resilience of the human spirit, and the meaning of refuge. While my mother escaped the Holocaust with her parents, most of her family did not. "This day is of great personal importance. It is a day when we join nations around the world in commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and in honoring the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazism. "Today, January 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Mayorkas released the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: communities, witness observances of Holocaust Remembrance Day, and listen to the accounts of Holocaust survivors. If you have composed a prayer or prayer-poem for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, please share it here.įor prayers composed for Kristallnacht (16 Marḥeshvan), please visit here.įor prayers composed for the Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust in the United States, please visit here.įor prayers composed for Yom haShoah in the State of Israel (27 Nisan), please visit here.įor public readings selected for Holocaust & Genocide Memorial Days, go here.WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. See here, for other Holocaust Memorial Days. The resolution came after a special session was held earlier that year on 24 January 2005 during which the United Nations General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust. The day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 during the 42nd plenary session. The Nazi atrocities include the killing of nine million Russians (including prisoners of war), 1.8 million Poles, over three-hundred thousands Serbs, a quarter million or more disabled persons, an undetermined number of political prisoners including seventy-thousand so-called asocials (LGBT persons), and nearly two thousand Jehova’s Witnesses. The day memorializes the unfathomable horror of the Nazi regime and its collaborators that resulted in the deaths of approximately seventeen million people including the genocide of six million Jews and a quarter million or more Roma. The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day on 27 January, the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. ![]()
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