At 10 AM April 14, 2026, sirens sounded throughout Israel. Instead of running towards the closest safe room Israelis stopped whatever they were doing stood tall and bowed their heads in reflection of the murder of millions of our brothers and sisters. Holocaust Day (Yom HaShoah), also known as the Day of Remembrance and Heroism, had officially begun.

The evening before Yom HaShoah many people attended a variety of ceremonies noting this tragic period of Jewish history and the attempt by the German people to eradicate the Jewish race. At a virtual reality presentation, we followed the life of Avigdor Neumann, a Czechoslovakian Jew born in Velká Sevljuš in 1931. Avigdor, then the 12-year-old son of a prominent Hasidic leader,  was separated from his family and somehow survived Auschwitz, Mauthausen, cattle cars and death marches to arise from the ashes and establish a family now numbering........

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