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Yom HaShoah

Yom HaShoah proper noun: holocaust Remembrance Day, a national memorial day in Israel on the 27th of Nisan (April or May).

Proper noun

Yom HaShoah

  1. Holocaust Remembrance Day, a national memorial day in Israel on the 27th of Nisan (April or May).
    • While I strongly support Professor Eckhardt's call for Yom HaShoah to be an annual part of the Christian religious calendar, I do not believe that the bulk of the Christian religious community is yet prepared to see the Holocaust as an event that personally involves them.1996, Steven M. Bob, “Yom HaShoah for Jews and Christians”, in Hubert G. Locke, Marcia Sachs Littell, editors, Holocaust and Church Struggle, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 251

Origin of Yom HaShoah

From Hebrew יום השואה.

Questions about Yom HaShoah

What does Yom HaShoah mean?
Yom HaShoah means holocaust Remembrance Day, a national memorial day in Israel on the 27th of Nisan (April or May).
What part of speech is Yom HaShoah?
Yom HaShoah is a proper noun.

Words near Yom HaShoah in the dictionary

  1. Yolŋu
  2. Yolŋus
  3. YOM
  4. Yom HaDin
  5. Yom HaKippurim
  6. Yom HaShoah
  7. Yom Kippur
  8. Yom Kippur War
  9. Yom Teruah
  10. yom tob
  11. yom tov

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