JERUSALEM (EJP)--- Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem has launched a new online exhibition and mini web site in advance of next week’s Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Yom Hashoah, a solemn day when nearly all bars, cafes and restaurants are closed and most television channels focus only on Holocaust remembrance, will be held in Israel on April 16.
The new website is named “Bearing Witness”, the theme of this year’s Remembrance Day, and includes information for names reading ceremonies.
The online exhibition “Witness to the Holocaust - the Oneg Shabbat Archives ” explores the most significant collection of sources in the world documenting the Holocaust -- sources that were created, gathered, and written by the victims themselves, in real time, at the moment when they were experiencing the horrors.
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The official opening ceremony for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day will take place on Sunday, April 15, at 8 pm (noon here in the CST zone) at the Warsaw Ghetto Square, at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem.
Israel’s Acting President Dalia Itzik and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will address the participants. Professor Szewach Weiss, chairman of the Yad Vashem council, will kindle the Memorial Torch.
Six torches will be lit by Holocaust survivors.
During the official memorial service, Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yonah Metzger will recite Psalms; the Rishon Lezion Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar will recite Kaddish. El Ma’aleh Rahamim will be recited by Cantor Asher Hainowitz.
The opening ceremony is to be broadcast live on www.yadvashem.org
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