The Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed last weekend in Israel and few other countries in the world. It is a day to pay tribute to the six million Jews who were a victim of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. In 1953, then President and Prime Minister of Israel passed the law to observe Yom HaShoah, on the 27th da of April/May.
American President Donald Trump also paid tribute to the victims of Holocaust. In a message recorded for the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly, he says that on this Holocaust Remembrance Day, they tell the stories of the fathers, mothers and children, whose lives were extinguished and whose love was torn from this earth. They also tell the stories of courage in the face of death, humanity in the face of barbarity, and the unbreakable spirit of the Jewish people. His daughter Ivanka Trump also issued a statement in which she calls on to the leaders of the world to ensure that such a tragedy would never happen again.
Thousands of people participated in the March of the Living in Poland, which was a memorial march of three kilometres from the Auschwitz camp to Birkenau camp. Both the camps were used to murder Jews in gas chambers. At 10 in the morning on Yom HaShoah, Stephanie Portnoy, who is a Holocaust survivor pressed the button for a siren to play in Israel; the siren that would signal all the citizens to stop and stand to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.
No comments:
Post a Comment