Already past Day of remembrance
Yom HaShoah 2016
יום השואה
Yom HaShoah 2016: from the evening of May 4, 2016 until May 5, 2016.
- Begins on the evening of
- Ends
- Length
- One day
- In the Hebrew calendar
- 27 Nisan
- 5776
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.
Other holidays in 2016
- Tu BiShvat
- Purim
- Passover (Pesach)
- Lag BaOmer
- Shavuot
- Tisha B’Av
- Rosh Hashanah
- Yom Kippur
- Sukkot
- Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
- Hanukkah
The exact candle-lighting time depends on sunset where you are. Check with your local community.