Yom Ha Shoah
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Yom Ha-Shoah (day in commemoration of the Holocaust) on the 27th of Nisan, is a recent addition to the Jewish calendar. The customs of ritual and liturgy are still in a state of development because the event itself is still too real to be symbolic. Death is always marked in Judaism by the lighting of a special candle. This commemoration is now marked by the prayers and lighting of a six-branched menorah standing for the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust period.