Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Why I’m Celebrating Holocaust Survivor Day Starting this year I will be adding another day to my calendar and will celebrate Holocaust Survivor Day. A new initiative which will take place every year on June 26th (this year on the 24th because of Shabbat), I am adding it to my calendar because it fills a void that I have somehow felt over the years — a day dedicated exclusively to survivors. Yom Hashoah is intense and somber, as it should be. The day has taken on for me and my family an almost religious flavor of prohibiting any joy, adding special commemorations to my prayers and lighting a candle of memory. Survivors are an aspect of the day but they are part of the story of death and destruction of European Jewry — witnesses to the tragedy.