Meanings
proper noun
- Holocaust Remembrance Day, a national memorial day in Israel on the 27th of Nisan (April or May).
While I strongly support Professor Eckhardt's call for Yom HaShoah to be an annual part of the Christian religious calendar, I do not believe that the bulk of the Christian religious community is yet prepared to see the Holocaust as an event that personally involves them.
1996, Steven M. Bob, “Yom HaShoah for Jews and Christians”, in Hubert G. Locke, Marcia Sachs Littell, editors, Holocaust and Church Struggle, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 251
Origin
- Hebrewיום השואה
- EnglishYom HaShoah
From Hebrew יום השואה.
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