Holocaust Day

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• Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) — Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) is a national event in the United Kingdom dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. It was first held in January 2001, and has been on 27 January every year since. The chosen date is the… …   Wikipedia

• HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY — (Heb. יוֹםהַשּׁוֹאָה; Yom ha Sho ah). In a resolution passed by the Knesset (April 12, 1951) the 27th day of Nisan was proclaimed as Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day – a day of perpetual remembrance for the House of Israel. This date …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Holocaust — • As suggested by its Greek origin (holos whole , and kaustos burnt ) the word designates an offering entirely consumed by fire, in use among the Jews and some pagan nations of antiquity. [Definition from 1910.] Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Holocaust Memorial Day — may refer to one of several commemorations of the Holocaust …   Wikipedia

• day — /day/, n. 1. the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there was no artificial illumination, all activities had to be carried on during the day. 2. the light of day; daylight: The owl sleeps… …   Universalium

• Day — /day/, n. 1. Clarence (Shepard) /shep euhrd/, 1874 1935, U.S. author. 2. Dorothy, 1897 1980, U.S. Roman Catholic social activist, journalist, and publisher. * * * I Time required for a celestial body to turn once on its axis; especially, the… …   Universalium

• Holocaust Remembrance Day — day on which the victims of the Holocaust are commemorated …   English contemporary dictionary

• Holocaust Remembrance days — International commemoration of the millions of victims of Nazi Germany s exterminationist policies. The commemoration, observed on different days in different countries, often marks the victims efforts at resistance and concentrates on… …   Universalium

• Holocaust trains — The Holocaust trains were railway transports run by German Nazis and their collaborators to forcibly deport interned Jews and other victims of the Holocaust to the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps.Modern historians suggested that… …   Wikipedia

• Holocaust denial — Antisemitism Part of Jewish history …   Wikipedia

• Holocaust in Norway — In the middle of the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, there were 2,173 Jews in Norway. At least 775 of these were arrested, detained, and/or deported. 742 were murdered in the camps, 23 died as a result of extrajudicial execution, murder,… …   Wikipedia