And those scenes will be remembered exactly as they happened.” - Shimon Peres The dreadful scenes flow from their dead eyes to our open ones. “Six million of our people live on in our hearts. Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.” - Hannah Senesh
Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor’s sake. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart. “Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. In honor of the day and the focus on remembrance, here are 12 quotes by survivors, writers and leaders to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a map where you can look up remembrance events taking place near you.
Local governments and schools also often host Holocaust Remembrance Day events, which sometimes involve reading names of those who perished or discussing other instances of genocide throughout history. Today, communities, museums and synagogues mark Yom HaShoah by holding ceremonies that emphasize the importance of remembering what happened during the Holocaust and focus on passing down memories of survivors to future generations. The somber day was established by the Israeli Parliament in 1951 to loosely align with the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the largest Jewish revolt against the Nazis during the war.
Over the course of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany slaughtered 6 million Jews, as well as millions of Roma, Slavs, gay people, individuals with disabilities and political enemies. Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah in Hebrew, will be marked Thursday as people around the world gather to commemorate the millions killed by the Nazis during World War II. A woman reads an inscription near the eternal flame during the annual Names Reading ceremony to commemorate those who perished in the Holocaust, in the Hall of Remembrance at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., May 2, 2016.
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