Holocaust Remembrance Day

At 8pm this evening, here in Israel and at other times in other parts of the world, ceremonies were taking place to remember those Millions of Innocent people who lost their lives in Death camps during WWII.

This day always falls one week before Memorial Day [for fallen soldiers] and Independence Day [A day of Celebration].
The importance of the day, the Ceremony will never be forgotten, and yet it has rarely featured on Israel Stamps.

Below are two examples. One a M/S from 1983 simply entitled 'The Holocaust' and a 1988 issue commemorating Anne Frank, the Dutch teenager who kept diaries of her ordeal during the Nazi occupation of Holland, and who was murdered just before the Wars end.

Let us not forget.





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In 1996 I visited the Holocaust museum in Washington DC. It was an experience that has stayed with me ever since. I will not forget.

West Germany issued this stamp in 1979 in
honour of Anne Frank's 50th Birth Anniversary.

US issue included in the "1945: Victory at Last" sheet from 1995:

In just over an hour, a siren will sound over the whole country and everything will stop for two minutes in silent remembrance.

It is always an amazing sight, especially if you are on the motorway and all the cars come to an abrupt halt.

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