Holocaust Remembrance Day important more than ever as anti-Semitic incidences on the rise in Wisconsin MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- On Thursday, April 28, hundreds of families across Milwaukee remembered family members and heroes lost during the Holocaust on Holocaust Remembrance Day. With a rise in anti-Semitic incidences over the years, Jewish organizations are tackling the issue with education and said this day is important now more than ever. The Holocaust was the systematic genocide of several groups of people which killed an estimated six million Jews and many others. The war lasted six years. Jeffrey Gingold, son of a Holocaust...