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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Holocaust Remembrance Day

The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. The day marks the anniversary of the start of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah.
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Almighty God, we remember before you this day those killed during the Holocaust, for the innocents murdered, for those who wrongly used your name to kill, and for those who did not speak up against such injustice. Guide us in our efforts to root out intolerance and prejudice in our world, that we may not make peace with oppression and may stand as witness to those who died. Help us to work towards the day when no one will fall to such a sword. We ask this through him who was executed as a criminal by an oppressive state, Jesus Christ our Redeemer. Amen.

(from stpetesrock.blogspot.com)
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