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Hebrew יום השואה

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Yom HaShoah

  1. Holocaust Remembrance Day, a national memorial day in Israel on the 27th of Nisan (April or May).
    • 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:
      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.

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