Updated: May 6, 2024 / 08:53 AM EDT SHARE CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Jewish community in western Massachusetts began the observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Yad Vashem is partnering with the Our 6 Million organization to start a new tradition for Holocaust Remembrance Day, a memorial candle-lighting ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem.

Israel, Jewish communities worldwide mark Holocaust Remembrance Day Yom HaShoah, typically falls out in April or May, and commemorates the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis during the ...

Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day is observed this year starting Sunday evening (May 5) and continuing through Monday (May 6).

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, ahead of the annual Holocaust remembrance day which begins at sundown Wednesday.

The president of Israel is urging for unity as the country marks the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day serves as a memorial for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

And so, as we observe Yom HaShoah, or Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day — as the Jewish people once again face an evil trying to annihilate us, as hundreds of millions of enemies vow to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — May 6, 2024 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. On Remembrance Day, we remember the six million Jews that were murdered in the Holocaust, as well as other victims of Nazi persecution.

Wheeling, W.Va. (WTRF) – Holocaust Remembrance Day begins today and continues into Thursday. It has been 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Each year, six Holocaust ...

Israel was founded in 1948 as a sanctuary for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust. About 165,000 survivors live there.