{"id":74293,"date":"2012-04-19T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=74293"},"modified":"2012-04-19T14:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T21:55:19","slug":"holocaust-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/holocaust-remembrance-day-74293.html","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, April 19, is Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah. Established in Israel in 1953, the day is observed as Israel&#8217;s day of commemoration for the millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Around the world, people of the Jewish community observe the day to remember the 6 million lives of friends and relatives lost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Star-of-David.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-74310\" title=\"Iron casted Star in black and White with a dramatic back light overtone.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Star-of-David-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Star-of-David-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Star-of-David.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>In honor of the lives lost and forever changed by the Holocaust, several genealogy projects are dedicated to finding and documenting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/Victims-of-the-German-NAZI-Holocaust\/1318\">victims of the Nazi atrocities<\/a>. These projects delve deeper into the lives of the individuals, preserving\u00a0their\u00a0stories and family connections, and providing a face for the 6 million people who were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Was your family affected by the Holocaust? Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/Holocaust-The-Final-Solution\/10996\">Holocaust: &#8220;The Final Solution&#8221;<\/a> master project\u00a0for a list of sub-projects dedicated to those who lost their lives and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/Heroes-of-the-Holocaust-The-Courageous-Fighters-against-Hitler-s-Nazi-Regime\/953\">heroes who resisted<\/a>. Perhaps you will want to join one of these projects to help preserve your family&#8217;s stories for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>How are you honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class='geni_project_widget' style='width:600px;height:300px'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/widget\/Holocaust-The-Final-Solution\/10996?show=profile_description' width='600' height='280' scrolling='no' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10px'>Join the worlds largest <a href='http:\/\/www.geni.com' target='_blank'>family tree<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/Holocaust-The-Final-Solution\/10996\">View the Holocaust: &#8220;The Final Solution&#8221; Project<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, April 19, is Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah. Established in Israel in 1953, the day is observed as Israel&#8217;s day of commemoration for the millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Around the world, people of the Jewish community observe the day to remember the 6 million lives of friends and relatives lost. In honor of the lives lost and forever changed by the Holocaust, several genealogy projects are dedicated to finding&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/holocaust-remembrance-day-74293.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":74316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[421,5098,3051,5097,5100,5099],"class_list":["post-74293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-project","tag-holocaust","tag-holocaust-remembrance-day","tag-jewish","tag-jews","tag-nazi","tag-yom-hasoah"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74293"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74324,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74293\/revisions\/74324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}