Holocaust Remembrance Day observed Published April 16, 2015 By Tech. Sgt. Rob Hazelett Air Reserve Personnel Center Public Affairs BUCKLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Holocaust Remembrance Day is being commemorated April 16 during this year's Days of Remembrance that will be observed here April 12–19. The Week of Remembrance runs from the Sunday before Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, through the following Sunday. This year's theme is Learning from the Holocaust: Choosing to Act. According to the U.S. National Holocaust Memorial Museum, the U.S. Congress established the days of remembrance as the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. The Holocaust was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, throughout the German Reich and German occupied territories. For more information, click here.