Day of Desolation (Yom haShoah)

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Day of Desolation (Yom haShoah)

***** Location: Israel
***** Season: Spring, 27 of Nisan
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

This day is the anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto.

Yom haShoah is a fixed date in the Hebrew calendar (27th of Nisan), but since that calendar does not coincide with the Gregorian, the day will occur on various dates in April or May:

18 April 2004 (27th of Nisan, 5764)
06 May 2005 (27th of Nisan, 5765)
25 April 2006 (27th of Nisan, 5766)
15 April 2007 (27th of Nisan, 5767)

Norman Darlington
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The people in Germany (and in other European countries) think at the “Holocaust Day” of the liberation of Auschwitz (Januaray 27) and the Shoa and all victims of the National Socialism.

Gerd Boerner
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I invite those of us for whom the phrase Holocaust Day is not yet set in stone to consider using the Hebrew name, Yom HaShoah ("Day of Desolation"), as an alternate, if not more correct, appropriate, phrase. (A holocaust = a burnt offering as a sacrificial ritual.)

Gary

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Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Yom HaShoah - How To Remember The Holocaust (I:17)
Yom HaShoah and Lessons to be Remembered (II:7)
Community - Then, Now, and Forever
The Sound of Silence
A Vital Transmission

Yom HaShoah
This day, which was established to remember the Holocaust and the six million Jews who perished, is the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, .
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/holocaust/

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Jom ha Shoa (18.April 2004)
In German.
http://www.hagalil.com/shoah/holocaust/index.htm


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Worldwide use

Links about the Holocaust
maintained by Al Filreis
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html


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Things found on the way

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HAIKU

.. .. .. .. .. Shoah by Gerd Boerner 2003

Die bleichen Kinder
küssen die Erde - nun
vor den Öfen

Before the ovens
they kneel and kiss the ground –
those pallid children.
http://www.tempslibres.org/awhw/themes/holo02.html

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foreign workers
party on the beach
Yom haShoah

Yom haShoah
the swimming pool
overflowing

Norman Darlington

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flowers fenced
with barbed wire
Yom HaShoah

synagogue
on Desolation Day
he clears snow

Geert Verbeke

Read more of Geert's Haiku on this subject here:
http://happyhaiku.blogspot.com/2004/01/friends-geert-verbeke.html

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