Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

With the Days of Remembrance will be commemorated in the United States of the Holocaust.

1978 passed the U.S. Congress one introduced by Senator John Danforth bill, which declared 28 and 29 April 1979 Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day. The date refers to the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945. Danforth chose a day with American significance to make the celebrations in public spaces and in synagogues and churches at the same time accessible.

The U.S. appointed by Jimmy Carter Holocaust Memorial Commission recommended a year later, these days to commit a year, after which it in 1980 came to the unanimous decision of Congress to establish a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and to extend the duration of the celebrations to one week. The celebrations are funded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, who heads the museum.

The date of the Days of Remembrance is not fixed, but is modeled on the Israeli Memorial Day Yom haScho'a. This is on 27 Nisan, the seventh month of the Jewish calendar - according to the Gregorian calendar, for example, 2006 April 25, 2007 April 15 and 2008 May 2 The Days of Remembrance begin on the Sunday before that date and ending on the following Sunday.