HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- Team Hill personnel and families gathered for a Days of Remembrance Ceremony April 28 at the Legacy Chapel to take part in the nationwide effort to honor the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
The ceremony featured a candlelight ceremony and keynote address from Rabbi Avrohom “Avremi” Zippel, program director for Chabad Lubavitch of Utah.
The Holocaust was a state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
Jews were the primary victims — more than six million were murdered.
Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) people, individuals with mental and physical disabilities, and Poles also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi Germany for racial, ethnic, or national reasons.
This year’s Days of Remembrance theme was “Determination, Hope, & Honor.”