Word: holocaustal
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When Israel was formed in 1948, the new government established this day to memorialize the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust...
...said the process of reading names individually helped ensure continued contemplation and remembrance of the Holocaust's atrocities...
...This is a way to personalize the tragedy," Kay said. "It's easy to just say that six million people died, but when you say each name, [the Holocaust] becomes a lot more significant...
...specifically made a point to include a lot of [other religious and ethnic] groups," Engelman said. "The prejudice, oppression and persecution of the Holocaust are themes that, sadly, are familiar to many people...
Standing under umbrellas and speaking into a microphone wrapped in plastic, the participants battled heavy rain and wind to read in five-minute shifts from a book listing 19,000 Holocaust victims. According to Kay, it takes about five years for participants to read through all of the names...