There are two Holocaust memorial days. One is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The other is Yom HaShoah. One is for them, the other is for us.
Yom HaShoah may be an official Israeli holiday, but the speed with which Yom HaShoah took over Jewish memory is unprecedented - it's a holiday that feels as though it had always been there, even to Jews alive before the Shoah or the State of Israel. It is just one of a million ways that you could never separate Jewish identity from Israel. I'd never heard of International Holocaust Remembrance Day before the internet, and I guarantee most Jews hadn't either. For us, Yom HaShoah is the day of Holocaust remembrance, it is the day in Israel, it is the day in the US, it is the day for Jews around the world.
I'll spare you the lecture about Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha'Atzma'ut.
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