Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – Thursday, April 8, 2021
Yom HaShoah is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Nationally it is always commemorated on the 27th of Nisan (on the Hebrew calendar) to mark the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, when Jewish resistance fighters defied the Nazis and fought for freedom and dignity.
This year, Yom HaShoah, the Day of Remembrance to the victims of the Holocaust will be observed on Thursday, April 8, 2021. Many commemorative programs and activities will occur nationwide between Sunday, April 4, and Sunday, April 11.
For your convenience, the HDEC has included many of these offered programs below:
Allgenerations:
Program: “A Chance to Survive”
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 11:30 AM ET
This program can be viewed by clicking here.
The program will feature two Holocaust Survivors, Alfred Munzer of the Washington, DC area, and Max Glauben of Dallas, Texas.
Phil Rosenfelt, Deputy General Consul for Program Service, U.S. Department of Education, and Esther Safran Foer, author of I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir, will moderate the program.
The Jerusalem Biennale
Program: Art and Memory
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 1:30 PM ET
Please click here to join on Zoom.
Meeting ID: 817 709 4721
B’nai Brith Canada:
Program: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 5:00 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
Please join B’nai Brith Canada as well as the Law Society of Ontario and The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day with this special program.
The program features an address from Pinchas Gutter, Holocaust survivor and educator, followed by a moderated discussion on Holocaust denial and distortion.
Our esteemed speakers’ panel includes Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Affairs for the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) and the Chief Representative to the United Nations. Mark is a member of the official U.S. delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Authority (IRHA), where he chairs the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. He recently spearheaded IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism, which so far has been adopted and endorsed by 29 countries and many high-profile organizations.
Jan Grabowski is a Professor of History at the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on issues surrounding the extermination of Polish Jews and the history of Jewish-Polish relations between 1939-1945. Most recently, a court in Poland found Jan and his co-editor Barbara Engelking guilty of libel in their joint research entitled Night Without End: The Fate of Jews in selected Counties of Occupied Poland. In 2018, Poland adopted a law that made it a civil offence to make false accusations about its history and involvement with the Holocaust.
Erica Whitford is Crown Counsel with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. Most recently, Erica represented the Crown in the notorious Your Ward News court case. The Toronto-based publication consistently disparaged women and Jews and denied the Holocaust.
If you wish to submit your question to our speakers in advance of the program, please do so via the Comments section on the registration page. Alternatively, you are welcome to send us an email at equityevents@lso.ca
Kean University:
Program: Yom HaShoah – Virtual Program
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM ET
For more information and to register for this program please click here.
3GNY:
Program: Yom HaShoah Global: Holocaust Survivor Testimony & Candle Lighting
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 8:00 PM ET
Click here to register.
Join us from all over the globe online to be unified as one people as we hear live from Holocaust Survivor Sally Frishberg about her incredible story.
Let’s also get inspired together by a special Yom HaShoah candle lighting in Israel in memory of our six million lost and say Kaddish.
JFCS Holocaust Center:
Program: 2021 Yom HaShoah Commemoration with guest scholar Dr. Deborah Lipstadt
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 8:00 PM ET
For more information and to register for this program please click here.
International March of the Living:
Program: 2021 International March of the Living Ceremony and Commemoration
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM ET
To register please click here.
International March of the Living will hold a Virtual March on Holocaust Remembrance Day led by Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, Holocaust survivors, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel, Isaac Herzog, KKL Chair Avraham Duvdevani and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau.
Among the Holocaust survivors participating are those who survived due to the selfless acts of medical professionals. Participants in the Virtual March from across the globe were filmed using innovative 3D technology so they appear to be marching along the traditional March of the Living route at Auschwitz – Birkenau.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM):
Program: 2021 Days of Remembrance Commemoration
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 11:00 AM ET
The Museum leads the nation in observing Days of Remembrance, established by the US Congress as the country’s annual Holocaust commemoration. Join our nation and a global community to honor Holocaust survivors, remember the six million Jews murdered, and pay tribute to American soldiers who liberated victims.
Despite a year when they faced loss and isolation, Holocaust Survivors continue to rise to the challenge of educating by sharing their experiences, compelling us to confront an alarming rise in antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and extremist ideology. Their resilience and courage inspire us to create a better future than the past.
After the live broadcast, the recording will be available to watch on demand on the Museum’s YouTube page.
Please click here to sign up for a reminder.
Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC):
Program: Yom HaShoah 2021
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust with its annual Yom HaShoah program. In 2021, our program is focusing on the importance of passing the history of the Holocaust to the next generation and will include both Survivors and their grandchildren. The central presentation will be made by the descendants of the Bielski brothers, who will discuss the Bielski Partisans who actively fought against the Nazis beginning in 1942. The commemoration program will also include Rabbi Howard Stecker, from Temple Israel of Great Neck, and Cantor Gustavo Gitlin, from Congregation Tifereth Israel in Glen Cove.
Holocaust Center for Humanity:
Program: Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 3:00 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida:
Program: Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Journey of Conscience
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
Kupferberg Holocaust Center:
Program: Remembering the Town Known as Auschwitz: Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 6:30 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us for a discussion about the complexities of educating people about the Holocaust in a town that is synonymous with the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp in what was formerly Nazi-occupied Poland during WWII. Featuring Tomasz Kuncewicz, Director, and Maciek Zabierowski, Head of Learning & Special Projects, from the Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland. The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation was established in 1995 in order to rebuild a Jewish cultural, spiritual, and educational center in Oswiecim. In September 2000, the Auschwitz Jewish Center opened its doors to visitors from all over the world. It is a non-governmental organization which exists to serve as a guardian of Jewish memory, as well as to educate the public about the Holocaust.
This event is co-sponsored by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College; the Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College; and the Museum of Jewish History.
3GNY, Liberation75 & American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership:
Program: Yom HaShoah Event
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM ET
To register please click here.
Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach & Greater Miami Jewish Federation:
Program: Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM ET
Please click here to register.
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation:
Program: Yom HaShoah V’HaGevurah
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM – 7:45 PM ET
To register and for more information please click here.
Seven Jewish Partisans will participate and share their stories of bravery and survival.
Featuring Sara and Charles Bedzow, Alex Folkman, Judith Ginsberg, Rose Holm, Faye Schulman and Ted Winestone.
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum:
Program: Yom HaShoah
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 8:00 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
Holocaust Museum Houston:
Program: Yom HaShoah
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021
Time: 8:00 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
Baltimore Jewish Council:
Program: Yom HaShoah 2021
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM ET
To register please click here.
Holocaust Museum LA:
Program: Yom HaShoah Commemoration Ceremony: Sephardic Victims of the Shoah
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
Sephardic communities from throughout Southern Europe and North Africa were nearly eradicated and forever changed due to the brutality of the Nazis and their collaborators. We pay tribute to their experiences by welcoming diverse voices to amplify victims’ stories, honor the legacy of those who perished, and stand together as one Jewish community. Featuring keynote address by Dr. Aomar Boum, Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies, UCLA Department of Anthropology.
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust:
Program: Annual Gathering of Remembrance
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2021
Time: 2:00 PM ET
For more information and to register please click here.
Every year, at the Annual Gathering of Remembrance, the Museum brings thousands of New Yorkers together to say with one collective voice: we will never forget.
Delivered by a city with one of the world’s largest communities of Holocaust Survivors, the tribute has power that echoes across generations.
Please join us at this year’s virtual gathering in observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). The program will feature music, remarks from Holocaust Survivors, young people, and public figures, and a candle-lighting ceremony.
Together, we will honor the memory of those who perished at the hands of evil and pay tribute to those who survived and have made a better world for us all.
Please direct questions to events@mjhnyc.org
Virginia Holocaust Museum:
Program: Yom HaShoah
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2021
Time: 3:00 PM ET
To register please click here.
The Virginia Holocaust Museum cordially invites you to our 2021 Yom HaShoah commemoration. Every year, we pause to remember and honor the Six Million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
This year, the Museum’s Day of Remembrance will be held virtually on Sunday, April 11 at 3 PM. The featured speaker will be internationally respected musicologist, professor and author of “Violins of Hope Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour”, Dr. James Grymes.
Wagner College:
Program: Auschwitz Survivor of Romania: Stefania Hecht
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM ET
To register please click here.
Auschwitz Survivor Stefania Hecht inspired Rebeca Zoicas, an international student from Romania living in Staten Island, New York to make a short documentary film. The film follows Stefania’s story from where she grew up in the northern part of Romania (then part of Hungary), to Auschwitz and a work camp in Czechoslovakia and finally to New York City.
Dr. Alex Hecht, Stefania’s son, who founded the Northern Transylvania Holocaust Museum in 2005 to promote Holocaust education and Dan Glasman, Stefania’s grandson, will join the discussion. The event will be moderated by author Roberta Seret, who will introduce her most recent book set in Transylvania during and after World War II.
