Day of remembrance
Yom HaShoah
יום השואה
Holocaust Remembrance Day. This date is not part of the project’s humour or game mechanics.
Until it begins
In 230 days
- Begins on the evening of
- Ends
- Length
- One day
- Day of remembrance
- In the Hebrew calendar
- 27 Nisan
- 5787
About the holiday
Israel’s day of remembrance for the six million murdered in the Holocaust, set in 1951 on the twenty-seventh of Nisan, close to the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. At ten in the morning a two-minute siren sounds across the country and everything stops, traffic on the motorway included. Names are read aloud. There is nothing here to celebrate.
Dates for the coming years
The exact candle-lighting time depends on sunset where you are. Check with your local community.