Yom HaShoah and Transgenerational Trauma

Psychology Today | 14.04.2026 21:57
Tonight, at sundown, Israel and Jewish communities worldwide observe Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day—marking the memory of six million Jewish men, women, and children murdered by the Nazis. The date was selected by the Knesset in 1951, placed deliberately on the 27th of Nisan—a week after Passover, invoking the proximity of liberation and catastrophe in the same breath.