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Ahistorical reference to "five million others"

yesterday at 5:57 p.m. • updated by yesterday at 10:25 p.m. • 1

The Yom Hashoah article says that it is "observed as Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews and five million others who perished in the Holocaust." Unfortunately this five million number is ahistorical yet still very much ubiquitous. Please see this article: ‘Remember the 11 million’? Why an inflated victims tally irks Holocaust historians.

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yesterday at 10:25 p.m.

Thanks for the feedback; this short description comes directly from Wikipedia and was out of sync with the current Wikipedia page. It has been updated to the latest version of Wikipedia:

Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (Hebrew: יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, lit. ’Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day’), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its allies, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national Memorial day, but several Jewish communities around the world observe the day as well. 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 (which falls in April or 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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yesterday at 10:25 p.m.

Thanks for the feedback; this short description comes directly from Wikipedia and was out of sync with the current Wikipedia page. It has been updated to the latest version of Wikipedia:

Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (Hebrew: יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה, lit. ’Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day’), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is Israel’s day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its allies, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national Memorial day, but several Jewish communities around the world observe the day as well. 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 (which falls in April or 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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