![]() Probably the most famous Holocaust museum in the U.S. New York City alone has at least 11 such collections. This provides links to twenty different museums and archives (such as the archives of the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives) to assist with research on both the macro and local level. The most public display of Yom HaShoah is the two-minute nationwide “freeze.” Traffic stops and people stand in place, while air raid sirens wail throughout the country.Īn invaluable part of the Rosenblatt Holocaust Collection Guide is the “Holocaust Studies in America” section. This year, Yom HaShoah starts on the evening of April 17 th.Īs seen in this report from I24 News (2022), all of Israel – both secular and religious – have developed an annual series of rituals (with Interfaith participation) to mark the date. A compromise set the new “holiday” at seven days after the end of Passover (source: Haaretz). ![]() However, since this fell during the Jewish holiday of Passover (or Pesach), it was not considered appropriate. An initial proposal was made to set aside the date of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (pre-World War II Warsaw, Poland having the world’s second-largest Jewish community, after New York City). Since before its creation in 1948, the people of Israel, a percentage of them arriving as Holocaust survivors, were determined to set aside a memorial date for the tragedy that had befallen the Jewish communities of Europe. However, there is another annual day of remembrance that is observed each year – this year from the evening of April 17 th through April 18 th. This solemn event marks the darkest chapter of the 20 th century, and is a rare occasion of near-unanimous international support for a memorial. General Assembly to mark the date (January 27 th) that the most infamous of extermination camps, Auschwitz, was liberated by the Soviet Army of the Allied forces. This “holiday” was established by the U.N. You may have seen this on social media through the international #WeRemember campaign. Many of us are probably familiar with the “holiday” of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. By Evan Frankl, Reference Librarian, Fordham Westchester Campus
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