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April 8, 1959: Israel's Knesset officially establishes Yom Hashoa when it passed the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day Law.
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#Israel
#NeverForget
#OTD
@yadvashem
@WorldJewishCong
@knessetisrael
1/ By the time the State of Israel was established in May 1948, 3 years had passed since the end of the WW2 and the Holocaust. Given the enormity of the crime, it became difficult to choose a single day as the most appropriate to commemorate this dark time in recent history.
2/ In fact, in 1947, even before Israel was established, the Chief Rabbinate of Mandatory Palestine set up a committee to think of a date for a memorial. They thought to relate it to the annihilation of the Warsaw Jewish community, which before the war at 500,000 Jews.
