This Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)

Shoah, which means “catastrophe” in Hebrew, refers to the atrocities committed during World War II against the Jewish people. Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins on April 23^rd and ends April 24^th  this year to commemorate the more than 6 million Jews slaughtered during the Holocaust.

This week, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pastor John and Diana Hagee have the honor of lighting a torch at Auschwitz-Birkenau dedicated to the Righteous Among the Nations, representing the value of SANCTITY OF LIFE.

After World War II, when the world learned the truth about the genocidal attempts made by the Nazis to eradicate Jewish Europeans, many promised that never again would such atrocities occur.

Yet as Israelis will pause for the sirens that prompt a two-minute national standstill in remembrance of the 6 million murdered simply for being Jewish, they are reminded that the evil that led to the Holocaust has not been consigned to the history books just yet…