Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 15th

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Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 15th
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This year (2007), April 15th marks Holocaust
Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.
The Holocaust, although occurring over sixty
years ago, is still something that needs to be
remembered. By having an international observance
of the event, it is hoped that the Holocaust
would never be repeated again. In 1951, the
Isreali Knesset declared that the 27th day of
Nisan is to be the Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust
Remembrance Day, a day of commemoration for the
Jews who perished and for those who showed
resistance and heroism during the Holocaust. The
day is the anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto
uprising. The theme for this years commemoration
is The Dignity of Difference, will provoke
people into thinking about and recognizing the
value of difference. Stephen Smith, chair of the
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust shared "Each one of
us can look at what we learn from the Holocaust
about the consequences of excluding others based
on their difference from us."
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust is the term used to refer to the
period from 1933 to 1945, before and during World
War II, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
systematically persecuted and murdered nearly six
million Jews. More than one third of the World
Jewry, as well as another five million non-Jews
throughout Europe, were killed during this
period. The genocide, or what the Nazis dubbed
The Final Solution, occurred mainly at six
death camps located in Poland.
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What Can I do?
The best thing you can do is to learn more about
the Holocaust and genocide. Even though many
people believe that genocide like the Holocaust
could never happen again, it has happened, and
will continue to happen. A current example of
genocide in todays land is Darfur, in Sudan.
Become educated and learn how to speak out
against these useless killings.
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Statistics

• Total number of People killed 5,962,129
• Total number of Jewish Survivors from the
  Holocaust 3,546,211
• Total number of Children killed Over 1.5 million
• Total number of Camps 27, with over seven being
  Extermination camps

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Quotes
Abraham Lewent Everyday you walk out in the
morning, you see somebody is laying dead, covered
with newspapers or with any kind of blanket they
found. Chaim Engel So I knew already what
happenedthat he went to the gas chamber with my
friend and I am here separating his
clothes. Charlene Schiff I drank water from
puddles. Snow. Anything I could get a hold
of. Ruth Webber There I was, an orphan, a
survivor of unspeakable pain and atrocities of
the war. And I was terribly angry at everything
and everybody. Because nobody even cared after I
survived, that I survived.
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Quotes
Kurt Klein Uh, it was an indescribable scene.
There were women scattered over the floor on
scraps of straw, some, some of them quite
obviously with the mark of death on their
faces. Lily Mazur Margules And we knew the
only we can survive if we will stay in the
front. Thomas Buergenthal Day one was a
10-hour march and tiring we began to lag.
Stragglers were shot, so two boys and I devised a
way to rest as we walked Wed run to the front
of the column, then walk slowly or stop until the
rear of the column reached us. Then, wed run
ahead again. Channa Morgensztern The hunger
in the ghetto was so great, was so bad, that
people were laying on the streets and dying.
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Quotes
Lilly Appelbaum It ended up being called the
death march because the ravines and the gutters,
they were all red from blood. Isreal Cendorf
Our courage is not shackled/ Life is marvelously
beautiful Gerda Weissman Klein and Kurt Klein
He held the door open for me and let me precede
him and in that gesture restored me to humanity.
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Dates for Yom Hashoah Dates for Yom Hashoah

2006 April 25
2007 April 15
2008 May 2
2009 April 21
2010 April 11