Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah)
Tuesday April 21, 2009
Days of Remembrance April 19-26
“The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims — six million were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.”
As part of the 2009 National Days of Remembrance Events, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is holding its annual Names Reading Ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah),
April 21, from 10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in the Hall of Remembrance, located on the Museum’s Second Floor. For more information, please email volunteerview@ushmm.org or call 202-479-9737
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
Washington, DC, 20024-2126
— to get there take Washington Metro to Smithsonian subway stop
— walking directions from Smithsonian to Holocaust memorial museum
- Exit station through 12TH ST SW & INDEPENDENCE AVE SW entrance.
- Walk approx. 3 blocks W on Independence Ave SW.
— United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Days of Remembrance
— Online USHMM Exhibitions
— Organize a Holocaust Remembrance Day
— Holocaust Encyclopedia
— Historical photos
— Download stickers to print and hand out during your ceremony
— Facebook – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
— USHMM YouTube Videos
