Yom Ha'Shoah / Holocaust Rembrance

A child's arm, and the tattoed arm of a concentration camp surivor, on the Israeli flag

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.

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Opening

  • Never Fully Extinguished (WorshipWeb)
    By Patricia Shelden
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Death, Ending, Grief, Healing, Letting Go, Sadness

Prayer

Reading

  • Remembering Yom Ha Shoah (WorshipWeb)
    By Karen Mooney
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Direct Experience, History, Human Rights, Humanism, Identity, Judaism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Solidarity

Ritual

  • Ceremony of Remembrance: Yom Hashoah (WorshipWeb)
    By Mary Wellemeyer
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Grief, Hope, Human Rights, Judaism, Responsibility, Suffering

Time for All Ages

  • The Gift of a Raspberry (WorshipWeb)
    By Martha Dallas
    Tagged as: Beauty, Connections, Direct Experience, Food, Generosity, History, Hope, Judaism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular, WorshipWeb