Yom Hashoah: A community remembers

Sunday marks this year’s Community Wide Holocaust Remembrance Day, a solemn annual observance formally known as Yom Hashoah. It commemorates the loss of millions of victims in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s World War II extermination campaign directed against Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill and others the Nazis considered inferior and subhuman.

Sponsored by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, this year’s observance takes place on Sunday, May 1, at 2:45 p.m. at the Los Angeles Holocaust Monument in Pan Pacific Park, located at 100 S. Grove Ave. at the north end of the park near Beverly Boulevard. The theme is “In Their Own Words: Diaries From The Holocaust,” featuring a keynote address by John Loftus, a former U.S. government prosecutor, Army intelligence officer, Nazi hunter and author. Call (310) 821-9919 or (310) 280-5010 for additional information.

Posted 4/28/11