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Holocaust Martyrs 'and Heroes' Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day is not the only year in which the memory of the murdered is noteworthy

The moves surrounding the determination of the 27th of Nissan today as Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism have re-flooded tragic events in the history of the Jewish people, but to expand the circle of remembrance and commemoration, there are additional days in the calendar related to Holocaust events that we must give place and expression.

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Dina Porat

Thursday, 08 April 2021, 10:00 Updated: 10:10

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In the video: an archive in black and white from the Auschwitz extermination camp (Photo: Reuters)

Every year on the 27th of Nisan, Israel, and with it Jewish communities around the world, mark National Holocaust Remembrance Day, according to a law passed in the Knesset in April 1959 - Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Law. However, except for this date, the state and the people mark the most tragic event in our history. Today marks

the first anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender, and the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany convened in the DP camps, where almost every day was a time of personal memory. For the first time a general day of remembrance, and it is simply the anniversary of liberation, May 8. The She'erit HaPleita saw it as her duty to set such a day, declaring it a "good day for us and future generations ... This day will always remain in Jewish history as a symbolic historical date of liberation." Hitler ".

This statement has not been absorbed or established over the years, perhaps because the date is not Hebrew, but tens of thousands of immigrants from the Soviet Union, who fought in the" Great Homeland War ", as World War II is called, and is a central experience in public consciousness, mark liberation day today. Memory, in parades and rallies, p

Expensive in Jerusalem.

Half a million Jews, a number he often does not remember properly, were soldiers in the Red Army during the war and the Holocaust, another half a million in the U.S. military, and a total of just over one and a half million Jews participated in underground and Allied and occupied armies by the Germans, and it is a holiday them.

on 11 January 1949, six months after the establishment of Israel, the Chief Rabbinate ruled to Israel Israel, led by the rabbis Herzog and Uziel, the day of Tevet today, the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust. It is a day devoted to general any person whose place of burial is unknown, and most of the victims of non They could not even be buried. This is the day when, according to tradition, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem in the days of the First Temple, and the siege that Titus imposed on the city in the days of the Second Temple also began. "This day connects the old Holocaust, which is remembered from the heart of the Jewish people. The new Holocaust, "said the rabbis." Here was a combination, according to Jewish custom, to mourn and perpetuate in the days already set, otherwise there would be no end to the days of mourning and remembrance accumulated by the people in its 3,000 years of existence, and Judaism is "and you lived in it," not "and mourned in it."

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The anniversary of the liberation, May 8, was the first to be set today as a general remembrance.

Auschwitz Extermination Camp (Photo: GettyImages)

Meanwhile, the day of the liberation, May 8, and April 19, the day the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out, continued on the night of Seder, 1943. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, and the Germans intended to storm the Great Ghetto at night. Earlier, and in any case, they used to storm on holidays and give our destruction as a gift. But the revolt broke out, lasted several weeks, and was noted with great pride after the war by all the survivors and not just the fighters. But of course it is impossible to hold a Holocaust Day on Seder night, 19 April is a foreign date that unites with the Hebrew only once in 19.

After debates that lasted throughout the 1950s, the Knesset decided, again with the great involvement of surviving Knesset members, and it should be remembered that in the 1950s every fourth Israeli was a survivor, to set the day 27 in Nisan, which falls after Passover and before Remembrance Day and Independence Day, and later it turned out to be a particularly successful day of battle during the revolt.

The Knesset established customs for the day, and imposed on Yad Vashem, which has since been established, to hold a ceremony, which became one of the most important ceremonies on the calendar, and Nissan became a month of remembrance.

President Rivlin is summoned to the Bundestag on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom)

In 1977, after the political upheaval, the then Prime Minister Menachem Begin sought to unite Holocaust Remembrance Day with T. Bab, and to commemorate the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the Holocaust, and in any case commemorate a series of pogroms and divorces that occurred in the Middle Ages.

The Knesset did not agree at all, demonstrating a rare wall-to-wall unity, and this is because over the years it only became clear how unique the Nazi leadership's decision to murder the entire Jewish people was, and how they tried to carry out that decision.

And another practical reason: T. Bab falls in August, a month of general recess.

Support the broad definition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Towards the end of 2005, the UN General Assembly set another date to commemorate the Holocaust, January 27, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz by Red Army soldiers. Auschwitz was imprisoned and tortured from almost all European nations, and the name of the extermination camp became a universal symbol. The recognition of the Holocaust and Auschwitz can be used as a means of strengthening legislation, education and awareness of foreign rights, the different, the refugee and the asylum seeker. Special for the Jewish people after the Holocaust, especially in the face of manifestations of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, and this day has already been done in various countries to commemorate genocide in general, for a national internal debate on issues of treatment of foreigners and minorities, education for democracy and human rights.

Everyone has a name - in the words of the poet Zelda - and this is the name of the moving ceremony that took place on Holocaust Day. Let it be said that every person as a person has a name, and there is a uniqueness, and every tragedy that has happened in the world, at any time and place, deserves recognition, correction and compensation, if possible, and at least ceremony and remembrance, and who as Jews and Israelis must support it, but without losing or obscuring the uniqueness of Each of them.

Prof. Dina Porat, Chief Historian of Yad Vashem

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