Yom Hashoah (“the Day of the Shoah”) was established in 1951 by the Knesset, the Parliament of Israel, as a day of commemoration for the roughly six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. In...
I remember vividly the account given by Elie Wiesel, in his book Night.1 He described the execution of three Jews at Auschwitz, including a child. They stood on three chairs and the nooses were...