{"id":165035,"date":"2026-04-14T01:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165035\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T01:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:49:18","slug":"pennsylvania-leaders-gather-in-harrisburg-to-honor-holocaust-victims-urge-remembrance-ahead-of-yom-hashoah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165035\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania leaders gather in Harrisburg to honor Holocaust victims, urge remembrance ahead of Yom HaShoah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania leaders gathered Monday at the State Capitol for the annual Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust, honoring the millions of victims who were killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event was hosted by the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition in partnership with Gov. Josh Shapiro and brought leaders from across the Commonwealth together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The program featured remarks from elected officials on both sides of the aisle, as well as music and powerful stories shared by family members of holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leaders hope these conversations not only honor those who were lost but also inspire people to reflect on the lessons of the Holocaust and continue building a more respectful and inclusive future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cNot only are there elements of society that want to forget the holocaust, but they want to erase and even deny that history. It is our moral obligation to those who died and to those who survived that unspeakable atrocity and have bravely told their stories to never allow that fact to be forgotten, denied or erased,&#8221; Pa. Attorney General Dave Sunday said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event came one day before Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and a time to honor survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania leaders gathered Monday at the State Capitol for the annual Civic Commemoration of the Holocaust, honoring the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74397,74396,33,28,30,29,74395,74398],"class_list":["post-165035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-day-of-remembrance","tag-holocaust-survivors","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-the-holocaust","tag-yom-hashoah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}