Holocaust Remembrance Day Interfaith Observance Thursday, April 8
Wicked Local Yom Ha-Shoah v’ha-G’vurah” is the name, in Hebrew, for a day that commemorates the Holocaust. This day refers back to the 1930s and 1940s, when Adolf Hitler led the National Socialist German Workers Party, which was called the NAZI party. Hitler built up Germany’s economy and put forth the idea that the German people could be turned into a pure, superior race of human beings. Jews, the Roma, certain classes of people from Poland and Russia, homosexuals, and others were defined by the Nazis as inferior and who, therefore, would be eliminated. Eleven million people, including 6 million Jews, were murdered by the Nazis, in the places where they lived, in the forests, and in concentration camps and death camps.