The most fitting way to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Commemoration Day) is as a community. This expresses our shared loss – a loss to all of humanity.

Participants in the commemorations benefit from joining together for a few carefully selected readings and prayers, which create an atmosphere of reflection and contemplation. Seeing the few remaining Holocaust survivors light their memorial candles each year and taking just a short amount of time to mark this occasion allows us to acknowledge our tremendous communal loss, and to move forward with a renewed sense of gratitude and a commitment to building a future without prejudice and genocide.

1. To remember the 6 million Jews and millions of others who were murdered in Nazi Europe, and all that was lost with them
2. To honor the living – those who miraculously survived the Holocaust, their children and grandchildren.

To see the artwork created by the Lincoln Public School students for In Remembrance, click HERE.