Holocaust Memorial Day
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'''Holocaust Memorial Day''' may refer to one of several commemorations of the [[Holocaust]].
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|Country
|Date
|Name
|Notes
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|[[Israel]]
| 27 [[Nisan]]
|''[[Yom HaShoah]]'' (Holocaust Day), or ''Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laGvura'' (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day)
| a secular [[Jewish holiday]]
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|[[United Nations]]
|[[27 January]]
|[http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/emainpage.shtml International Day of Commemoration to honour the victims of the Holocaust]
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|[[European Union]]
|[[27 January]]
|[[International Holocaust Remembrance Day]]
| since [http://www.ukom.gov.si/eng/government/sessions/id/index.html?&i1=UVI&i2=ang&i3=1&i4=sjv&i5=ter_lst_021&i10=artic&i12=C4845FCE132B4F11C12573F10029A36B 2005]
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|[[Germany]]
|[[27 January]]
|''Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus'' (Memorial Day for the Victims of [[Nazism|National Socialism]])
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|[[Poland]],
|[[27 January]]
|''Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu'' (Anniversary for the Victims of Nazism)
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|[[United Kingdom]]
|[[27 January]]
|[[Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)|Holocaust Memorial Day]]
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|[[Italy]]
|[[27 January]]
|''[[w:it:Giorno della Memoria|Giorno della Memoria]]'' (Memorial Day)
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|[[France]]
|[[16 July]]
|[[Rafle_du_Vel%27_d%27Hiv#Memorials_and_monuments_-_Paris|''anniversaire de la rafle du vélodrome d'hiver'']](anniversary of the Winter Velodrome roundup)
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|[[Romania]]
|[[9 October]]
|[[National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust|''Ziua Naţională de Comemorare a Holocaustului'' / ''Themesko Dives vash o Poraimosko Astaripen pe Godyate'']] (National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust)
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|[[United States]]
|[[8 May]]
|[[Holocaust Victims Memorial Day]]
|Proposed by [[Steven Spielberg]], film director of ''[[Schindler's List]]'' a true story of a Nazi party member whom saved 10,000 Jews from extermination. Not a federal holiday, but in 2005 the United States had a "moment of silence" on the 60th anniversary of the surrender of [[Nazi Germany]] when the world became further aware of the Holocaust by allied troops visited Nazi concentration camps.
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