Yom Ha'Shoah is a Jewish observance commemorating the lives and heroism of the six million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945. It falls on the 27th day of Nisan, the first month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar.
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2020 will begin on the evening of Monday, 20 April.
In addition, International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust.