Holocaust commemoration day
Holocaust commemoration day is held on May 5. Date for 2024. יום השואה - Yom HaShoah - the twenty-seventh of Nissan. This event in the first decade of the month May is annual. 
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In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah. When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday, the state of Israel observes Yom Hashoah on the preceding Thursday. When it falls on a Sunday, Yom Hashoah is observed on the following Monday.
Candle lighting is a traditional component of Jewish remembrance rituals.
Yom HaShoah ve HaGevurah, the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and Heroism, was confirmed by law of the Knesset on April 7, 1959, evolving from a resolution passed in 1951.
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