Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day
“Six million is not a number. It is names, faces, families, futures.”
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What We Remember Today
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazi regime, in pursuit of the “Final Solution,” systematically murdered six million Jews, including:
•1.5 million children
•2 million women
•2.5 million men
Entire families vanished. Towns emptied. Torah scrolls burned. The Jewish soul was targeted for erasure. But God preserved a remnant.
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Not Just History — A Spiritual Reality
“For Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
— Psalm 44:22
Paul later quotes this verse in Romans 8:36, affirming that even through slaughter, God’s people are not separated from His love.
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God’s Promise to Preserve Israel
“Thus says the Lord: Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, will I cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done.”
— Jeremiah 31:37
“I will make a full end of all the nations… but I will not make a full end of you.”
— Jeremiah 30:11
These are not broken covenants — they are eternal guarantees.
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“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
— Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate
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Why We Remember
•To honor the victims.
•To resist rising antisemitism.
•To stand with Israel.
•To declare God’s faithfulness — even through fire.
“He who touches you touches the apple of His eye.” — Zechariah 2:8
“The Lord will not forsake His people; He will not abandon His heritage.” — Psalm 94:14
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