Yom Hashoah 2023 (5783)

Today is a solemn day of remembrance in Israel. Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Evening of Mon, April 17, 2023 (5783) – Evening of Tue, April 18, 2023 (5783) is the key on 27th of Nisan.

Israel president urges unity on Holocaust Remembrance Day

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s president appealed for national unity as the country marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday after months of mass protests that have roiled the nation. 

Yom Hashoah, the day Israel observes as a memorial for the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies in the Holocaust, is one of the most solemn dates on the country’s calendar. 

Official observances began after sundown on Monday with a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Six survivors, including one of the few remaining survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, lit torches for the memory of the 6 million killed in the Holocaust.

Speaking at the ceremony, President Isaac Herzog called on participants in the more than three months of weekly protests against the government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary to lay their differences aside during the coming week of national mourning.

“Let us leave these sacred days, which begin tonight and end on Independence Day, above all dispute,” he said. “Let us all come together, as always, in partnership, in grief, in remembrance.”

Israel marks the 75th anniversary of its independence next week, a day after the country’s Memorial Day.

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The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday, the state of Israel observes Yom Hashoah on the preceding Thursday. When it falls on a Sunday, Yom Hashoah is observed on the following Monday. In the United States, Days of Remembrance runs from the Sunday before Yom Hashoah through the following Sunday.

   Today is Tuesday, April 18, 2023