In 1980 President Jimmy Carter, citing a joint resolution of Congress, proclaimed the week of April 21-28 as Jewish American Heritage Week. Both documents identify April as an appropriate time for drawing attention to Jewish heritage: Passover; the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Yom haAtzmaut; Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry; and Yom haShoah. For […]
Yom Hashoah u’Gevurah, the day set aside to remember Holocaust victims and heroes, falls this year on Monday, April 28. Many schools commemorate the event with a school-wide ceremony, often in combination with reading the names of some of the six million Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Go to our Featured Document to see the 1955 Israeli […]
The story of the Jews of Bulgaria during the Holocaust is one of surprising survival unlike the Jews of many other countries. In fact, the history of the Jewish community of Southern Europe is still relatively unknown. With five films and hundreds of interviews with elderly survivors, Centropa has created many resources available to teach your […]
In 1955 the Israeli Knesset passed a law establishing a special day of commemoration for Holocaust victims as well as those who resisted. The law provided that the day, to take place on the 27 of Nisan, would be marked by: two-minutes of silence halting all work and road traffic; memorial gatherings in Army bases and […]
I returned them unharmed to their cells, in the sanctuaries that make them happy. May all the gods that I returned to their sanctuaries, every day before Bel and Nabu, ask for a long life for me, and mention my good deeds, and say to Marduk, my lord, this: “Cyrus, the king who fears you, […]