On this day...

We remember.

It’s Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance day when we remember the 6 Million Jews murdered 80 years ago. Sometimes the numbers are the simplest way to tell the story.

Today there are 15.8 Million Jews worldwide, a number still lower than the Jewish population in 1939. If the Holocaust had not happened, today our population would be between 25 and 32 Million.

Yesterday at Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, where more than one million people were slaughtered just for being Jewish, Holocaust survivors, families of the murdered, October 7th victims, and freed hostages joined together for The March of the Living.

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi with President Herzog at March of the Living

They stood together in that horrific place and sang Hatikva, Israel’s national anthem.

Last year I spent this day in Israel where everything including traffic literally stops for two minutes in honor of the six million of us who lost their lives. Here is a glimpse of what it looked like this year in Tel Aviv when cars stopped to the sound of the siren:

In Israel, the Walls of .Jerusalem lit up last night to commemorate the day.

Here is what Yom HaShoah looked like at HaKirya, home of a major IDF base.

Here are Prime Minister Netanyahu’s remarks from today at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel:

"After the Holocaust, we were like dust carried away by the wind. Now we have a country, we have an army, we have a security force, we have soldiers with a fierce spirit.

If we need to stand alone, we shall stand alone. If we need to fight with our fingernails, we shall fight with our fingernails, but we will not relent."

And finally, here is a site that entrusts you with the name of one Holocaust victim so that you can light a candle in their memory. To commemorate the day at home, light a Yahrzeit candle and say their name.

Never forget. Never again.