Yom HaShoah
Cypress College’s Annual Yom HaShoah Holocaust Day of Remembrance
April 25, 2024
Holocaust Education Program Partners
Thank you to our Holocaust Education Program partners Jewish Long Beach and SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union.
Holocaust Survivors, photographed by Cliff Lester
They were taken away from their homes, kept behind metal bars and wire fences like criminals—animals. Millions were murdered. Millions more were displaced, left without a home, without family, without much hope. But they survived.
On Yom HaShoah, and every other day of the year, we: remember those who lost their lives in the Holocaust—condemned simply because of their religion; continue to learn from those who survived; and honor those who risked their lives, livelihoods, and families to aid the Jewish people. They show us the resilience of the human spirit; that inclusiveness and diversity are a strength and necessary priority; that there is always still hope for humanity; that in the end, we are all the same.
With these themes of survival, gratitude, hope, and inclusiveness, Cypress College holds a Yom HaShoah Day of Remembrance event each year in April, with the first one being held in 2016.
