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Jews in North America observe Yom Hashoah within the synagogue as well as in the broader Jewish community. Several ultra-Orthodox rabbis have recommended adding piyyutim (religious poems) that were written by contemporary rabbis to the liturgy of Tisha B’Av and many communities follow this custom. The Orthodox Rabbinate of Israel attempted to promote the Tenth of Tevet-a traditional fast day commemorating the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem in ancient times-as the “General Kaddish Day” in which Jews should recite the memorial prayer and light candles in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust. There is no change in the daily religious services in Orthodox synagogues on Yom Hashoah. Some Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox rabbis have never endorsed this memorial day, nor have they formally rejected it. There is no public entertainment on Yom Hashoah, as theaters, cinemas, pubs, and other public venues are closed throughout Israel. Even the musical programs are adapted to the atmosphere of Yom Hashoah. All radio and television programs during this day are connected in one way or another with the Jewish destiny in World War II, including personal interviews with survivors. The siren blows at sundown as the holiday begins and once again at 11 a.m. Since the early 1960s, the sound of a siren on Yom Hashoah stops traffic and pedestrians throughout the State of Israel for two minutes of silent devotion. The Siren Yom Hashoah ceremony in the Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, 1963. Surveys conducted in the late 1950s indicated that young Israelis did not sympathize with the victims of the Holocaust, since they believed that European Jews were “led like sheep for slaughter.” The Israeli educational curriculum began to shift the emphasis to documenting how Jews resisted their Nazi tormentors through “passive resistance”-retaining their human dignity in the most unbearable conditions-and by “ active resistance,” fighting the Nazis in the ghettos and joining underground partisans who battled the Third Reich in its occupied countries.

In the early 1950s, education about the Holocaust emphasized the suffering inflicted on millions of European Jews by the Nazis. Although the date was established by the Israeli government, it has become a day commemorated by Jewish communities and individuals worldwide.

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The full name became formal in a law that was enacted by the Knesset on August 19, 1953. The date was selected by the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) on April 12, 1951. Yom HaShoah 2023 begins the evening of Monday, April 17.