Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, solemnly memorializes the six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis. The Nazis, who were in power between 1933 and 1945, systematically sent Jews to death camps in hopes of ridding the world of the "Jewish Problem", their euphemism for genocide. Jews commemorate those killed by lighting Yahrzeit memorial candles, reading the names of those who perished, attending Holocaust museums and listening to the stories of survivors, to help insure that it will never happen again. This year, observance of Yom HaShoah will begin at sundown on April 30, 2011.

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Links to JOI's "Intermarriage Q&A" Holocaust Questions:
What is the Holocaust?
Where Can I Learn More About the Holocaust?
What is the History of Persecution of the Jews?

Sculpture at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. Depicts Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising