L”chaim! – 600 Holocaust Survivors and Families Celebrate Life with Song ‘Chai’ by Ofra Haza

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In honor of Yom Hashoah which falls out this week, Koolulam invited 600 Holocaust survivors, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to sing together in a special project of Beit Avi Chai and Zikaron BaSalon. They sang the song “Chai” by Ofra Haza. The result was moving…

The song Hai was written by Ehud Manor and composed by Avi Toledano specially for the Eurovision Song Contest of 1983 in Munich, Germany. Manor said he wrote the song as an anthem of victory and defiance of the Jewish people against those who tried to destroy it. Indeed, the words of the song make it clear that the Jewish people is still alive and continues to flourish.


From Wikipedia:

Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day”), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the actions carried out by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day. The first official commemorations took place in 1951, and the observance of the day was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959. It is held on the 27th of Nisan (April/May), unless the 27th would be adjacent to the Jewish Sabbath, in which case the date is shifted by a day.

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