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Question: Is there a Holocaust Victims History Month!?
I mean there is Women's, Black, LGBT (etc) history month, is there a Holocaust Victim's History month!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I don't think so, for the simple reason: Not all Holocaust victims are considered as such!. In fact-which is very unfortunate-only Jewish victims are considered (by mainstream Western & Israeli institutions) as Holocaust victims!. This is how the name Auschwitz, which is a german imposed name for a place in Poland, is known more then Jasenovac, which is the original name for a site of a death camp, most victims of which were Serbs (I mean, others, including Jews, were butchered there too, but I "suspect" the reason this camps isn't so well known is because most of its victims weren't Jews)!. As for a Jewish Holocaust Victims Month, I never heard about such a commemoration!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't believe there's a specific month, per se, for Holocaust remembrance!.
Yom HaShoah is a Holocaust Remembrance day in Isreal!.
For others, see my source, "Holocaust Memorial Days" from WikipediaWww@QuestionHome@Com