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Holocaust Remembrance Day

S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie gave the keynote address at the city's Yom HaShoah commemoration at the JCCSF. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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How a Nazi bookstore led to S.F.’s Yom HaShoah observance and the ‘courage to act’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

San Francisco’s Jewish community held its first Yom HaShoah ceremony on May 3, 1978, just one short and painful year after the opening of a Nazi bookstore across from a […]

Memorial candles were lit during Holocaust Remembrance Day at the JCC of San Francisco in 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
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Never forget: Holocaust Remembrance Day events around the Bay Area

Rahel Knight (Courtesy) by Rahel Knight April 6, 2026April 8, 2026
Three men, one very young and two very old, light candles in front of a packed auditorium
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Bay Area events for Yom HaShoah and Israel Memorial Day

by J. Staff April 14, 2025April 21, 2025
Virtual memorial plaques are projected on the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau for Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Marcin Kozlowski-March of the Living)
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Virtual memorial plaques projected on gates of Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 21, 2020
In lieu of gatherings to remember Holocaust victims and read aloud their names publicly, Yad Vashem is asking the international public to record themselves reading the names of Holocaust victims and share their videos on social media using the campaign’s hashtags , #RememberingFromHome #ShoahNames. (COURTESY YAD VASHEM)
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Yad Vashem to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with at-home name-reading videos

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA April 6, 2020April 6, 2020
Journalists visiting a renovated barrack at Auschwitz, Dec. 1, 2016 (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

As Holocaust memories fade, our world becomes more perilous

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn January 17, 2020January 17, 2020
One of the refurbished Holocaust violins that has come to the Bay Area as part of the Violins of Hope event series. (Weinstein Collection)
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Violins of Hope concert set at Emanu-El for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 15, 2020January 17, 2020
Andrew Bering as Israel Lichtenstein in “Who Will Write Our History” (Photo/Courtesy Anna Wloch-JFI)
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Warsaw Ghetto doc screenings on Holocaust Remembrance Day

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 24, 2019January 23, 2019

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