Yom Hashoah / Holocaust Memorial Day (Jewish)

 Six million Jews, including one and a half million children, were murdered in the Holocaust - a systematic genocide of one third of the entire Jewish population.

Holocaust Day is a day to remember the victims - those that survived, and the many more who did not. It is also a day to recall what human beings are capable of doing to one another. 

We memorialize the Holocaust for the sake of those that were murdered, those that survived and for our own sake. As George Santayana wrote: "Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it."