Remembering the Holocaust - Yom Ha Sho'ah

In Israel, every year, on April 19th (Yom HaShoah veHagevurah), is a special public memorial of the Holocaust. For two minutes, an alarm sounds and there is a two-minute cessation of everything. The world comes to a halt there, and then quickly resumes.

Through the Shefa Network, a Masorti Movement website, I learned of a YouTube video showing a Tel Aviv freeway grinding to a halt and watched it. As Rabbi Menachem says in his story for April 19, 2012, you find that you are holding your breath as you watch and listen.

Never forget.