Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 15th, 2007
Holocaust Remembrance Day
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the victims of the Holocaust and commemorate the martyrs and survivors .
We must never forget 
The road to Auschwitz was built by hate,
but paved with indifference.
The Holocaust is the systematic killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.” The word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word 'olah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. This word was chosen because in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program - the extermination camps - the bodies of the victims were consumed whole in crematoria and open fires.
Sign excluding Jews from public places
This sign states in German: "Jews are not wanted here."
A scene of horror at the extermination camp of Maidanek: possibly in a desperate attempt to cover their tracks, the SS burned corpses of victims.
A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Ukraine.
A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Soviet Union. Naked Jews, including a young boy, just before their murder.
A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Soviet Union. The SS man is firing at a Jewish woman who is wounded and trying to get up.
A mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Soviet Union.
Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz.
Scenes of horror at Nazi concentration camps, where people were subjected to medical experiments.
A report from Himmler to Hitler, listing 363,211 Jews murdered in the Nazi occupied Soviet Union during August-November of 1942.
One of the cremation pits used to burn the victims of the gas chambers in Auschwitz. These "burning pits" were used mainly in the summer of 1944, when the extermination was going at such a rate that the furnaces couldn't handle the number of corpses.
A mass grave in the Belsen camp.
The furnaces of Krema II in Auschwitz.
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, is the Jewish people’s memorial to the murdered Six Million and symbolizes the ongoing confrontation with the rupture engendered by the Holocaust. Containing the world’s largest repository of information on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is a leader in Shoah education, commemoration, research and documentation.
http://www.yadvashem.org/
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