The United States Congress created the Days of Remembrance as
our nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust. This year,
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) is today, Wednesday May 4,
2016. http://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance
During the Holocaust, more than 11 million human beings were
systemically murdered. That includes 6 million Jews, 2/3 of the
European Jewish community at that time. That percentage still
boggles my mind. In my family, the percentage was much higher.
But the numbers would have been even worse were it not for the
countless "righteous gentiles." The term "righteous
gentiles" is used to refer to those who are not Jewish and who
risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. They are
specifically honored in Israel and throughout the world.
