Remember
Our 2025 Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration will be held on April 27, 2025, in collaboration with the Phoenix Symphony.
Yom HaShoah 2025
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In partnership with The Phoenix Symphony, the Phoenix Holocaust
Association (PHA) will host its annual community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemoration at Symphony Hall on Sunday, April 27, 2025. Prior to the Commemoration, the Phoenix Symphony will perform Hindemith’s Symphonic
Metamorphosis and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 2:00 pm then followed by the Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at 5:00 pm.
The PHA Commemoration will include a procession of local Holocaust survivors, a candle-lighting ceremony to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, a keynote address by a local dignitary, remarks by a survivor, an invocation by a local rabbi, music, prayers, and the presentation of PHA’s Annual Shofar Zachor Award for outstanding contributions to Holocaust and genocide education. The music will include a work by Gideon Klein, composed just days before his transport from Terezín to Auschwitz. For concert tickets and to RSVP for the commemoration visit: 2025 Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration – Phoenix Holocaust Association
Yom HaShoah Book of Remembrance
As part of our Yom HaShoah Commemoration we pay tribute to those family members who perished in the Shoah and honor those who survived in a Book of Remembrance. Click the button below to download the 2024 Book of Remembrance.
Survivor Stories
The Holocaust was a profoundly tragic time in world history that resulted in the murder of six million Jews, of which an estimated 1.5 million were children. Another five million human beings were also killed, including Roma-Sinti people (“Gypsies”), political dissidents, communists, intellectuals, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals, Poles, and people with mental and physical disabilities.
Most Holocaust survivors alive today are over the age of 80. Local survivors’ stories cover a wide range of backgrounds and Holocaust experiences.