Remembrance Day Commemorations Set

The American Federation of Jewish Fighters, Camp Inmates and Nazi Victims, has called on all American Jews to assemble in their synagogues and places of assembly Apr. 18 evening and on Apr. 19 to commemorate “Yom Hashoa V’Hagvurah, Remembrance Day for Jewish Martyrdom, Resistance and Heroism. Eli Zborowski. president of the Survivors’ Federation, said that many Jewish communities throughout the U.S. would be holding memorial services for the victims of the Nazis.

Friday, April 19, corresponds to the Hebrew date of the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan which is the day set by the State of Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world to remember the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis and Jewish resistance. This year also marks the 31st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and other revolts in Nazi occupied Europe in World War II. A number of organizations and some communities will. in observance of Yom Hashoa, hold commemorations on April 21.

Most of the Jewish schools in the Greater New York area and in other major cities in the U.S plan special programs on the eve of Yom Hashoa, and on the Day of Observance. At many memorial services the shofar will be sounded and the memorial prayer, “El Mole Rachamim” will be chanted.

Zborowski also announced that over 70 national Jewish organizations have signed a proclamation calling upon “all Jews to assemble in their synagogues and places of assembly to commemorate the heroic deeds of our people in the European catastrophe.” According to Zborowski, the message of the ceremonies and observances of the Remembrance Day which will be held throughout the U.S. is “that all humanity dare not forget the Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.”