
Origins Rabbinate-instituted day (1949–1950) It is held on the 27th of Nisan (which falls in April or May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to the Jewish Sabbath, in which case the date is shifted by a day. The first official commemorations took place in 1951, and the observance of the day was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959. In Israel, it is a national memorial day. In 2021, Yom HaShoah will be commemorated on April 8.Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah ( Hebrew: יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, lit.'Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day'), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah ( Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. The ceremony was simulcast on Facebook and YouTube.

In 2020, in light of the social distancing required by the coronavirus pandemic, the Department of State supported the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Virtual National Commemoration on April 21.

Yom HaShoah also honors the survivors of history’s darkest hour and those heroes who found the courage to resist Nazi oppression. Department of State annually hosts a Yom HaShoah event, often in partnership with the international diplomatic corps in Washington, DC, to honor the lives and memory of the six million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution. The Days of Remembrance run from the Sunday before Holocaust Remembrance Day (also known as Yom HaShoah) through the following Sunday. Each year across the United States, state and local government organizations, workplaces, schools, and religious and community centers host remembrance activities to reaffirm our nation’s commitment to keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive. Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust.

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