YOM HASHOAH: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY.

PHOTO--The winning poster in Yad Vashem's "Designing Memory" competition. This poster is being distributed throughout Israel for Yom Hashoah.

WARSAW, Poland – Thousands of youth from Israel, the United States and other countries marched Thursday between Auschwitz and Birkenau, the two parts of Nazi Germany's most notorious death complex, to honor the millions killed in the Holocaust.

Also Thursday, Polish officials and members of the Jewish community gathered in Warsaw to mark the 69th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the doomed revolt that a group of Jews waged against the Nazis in 1943.

An estimated 10,000 young people, some carrying Israeli flags or wearing them draped around their shoulders, took part in the March of the Living in Oswiecim, a town in southern Poland where the Germans operated Auschwitz during World War II.

The event, which takes place every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, involves a walk of two miles (three kilometers) from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where Hitler's men executed Jews, Roma and others in huge numbers in gas chambers.

The participants were joined by a handful of Holocaust survivors and American military veterans who helped liberate several other death camps at the end of World War II.

Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops in January 1945, in the closing months of the war as Germany faced defeat.


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THIS IS FROM THE WASHINGTON STATE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AND RESOURCE CENTER.
I URGE PEOPLE IN THE SEATTLE AREA TO ATTEND IF POSSIBLE.
MORGAN

Yom Hashoah:
Holocaust Remembrance Day

April 19, 2012

Today we remember the millions who were murdered in the Holocaust and we honor those who survived.

Change begins with you.
Join us on Sunday, April 22 on Mercer Island for our community Holocaust Remembrance Day program with special guest, author Fern Schumer Chapman, and to award this year's writing/art contest winners. Or attend a Holocaust Remembrance Day program in your area.

See the student winners of the writing/art/video contest - all of whom have applied the lessons of the Holocaust to their own lives to make a difference.

With My Own Eyes: Holocaust. Genocide. Today. The film is now available On Demand and on You Tube. With My Own Eyes is a 20-minute educational documentary that weaves survivor testimony with contemporary issues.

http://www.wsherc.org
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AND LASTLY, FROM THE JERUSALEM POST

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=266789

...Jews were not the only victims of the inhuman Nazi policy. Gypsies were also victims and no less vulnerable than the Jews. Even today, they are still being victimized in Europe, as are Jews in many places. In fact, a delegation of European Sinti and Roma gypsies, headed by Romani Rose, who chairs the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and who lost relatives in the Holocaust, came to Israel at the invitation of the Israeli government to participate in Holocaust commemorations. The delegation, which includes representatives from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, met for discussions with Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin as well as with representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main topic of their talks was the increasing anti-Semitism and violence to which Jews, Sinti and Roma in Europe are being subjected.
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SUNDAY IS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY.
PLEASE LIGHT A CANDLE.
MORGAN