By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yom HaShoah is known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. What many people are unaware of is the earlier history of the desire to establish such a date. In this article, we will discuss the opinions of three great Rabbinic figures who advocated establishing a specific day in the Jewish calendar to memorialize the victims of the holocaust. The purpose was to create an opportunity for a communal fast and to memorialize those who were tragically murdered and whose yahrtzeit date we do not know. One of these Gedolim also stated that it was so that...
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