Today, April 18 is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah, is an internationally recognized day corresponding to the 27th day of Nisan, the first month on the Hebrew Calendar, and marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a 27-day resistance against German forces. The Ghetto Uprising was the largest and most symbolic act of Jewish resistance during World War II, and inspired uprisings in other ghettos such as in Bialystok and Minsk.

Holocaust Remembrance Day serves to commemorate the actions taken by Holocaust survivors in the years immediately following the devastation of the Holocaust to reclaim their rights, history, cultural heritage, traditions and dignity, and plays a vital role in the ongoing education against intolerance and injustice.

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