Holocaust Remembrance Day

We commemorate the Holocaust Remembrance Day at school in a short ceremony that begins with the wail of the siren and then, the “Yizcor”- prayer is read. It is the prayer for the people who didn’t survive the Holocaust. There is also a national ceremony in the “Yad Vashem” museum in Jerusalem.

On television and on the radio programs are broadcast about the Holocaust, some of them are documentary, some of them are about important people who died in the Holocaust, like the famous writers Janusz Korczak or Anne Frank, who wrote her famous diary, and some programs are about people who helped others to survive the Holocaust. In addition lists with the names of Holocaust victims are read.

Today’s teenagers are the third generation of the survivors who usually believe that Holocaust Remembrance Day is very important because the people who survived are now very old and we won’t be able to save the original stories unless we keep records of them. This is why we believe it is very important to commemorate this day because a nation without a past has no future.