Remembering six million on Yom Hashoah

Today synagogues around the world will read aloud the names of the six million members of the Jewish faith that perished during the Holocaust. News 25’s Hank Davis has more on National Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Congregation Beth Israel in Gulfport is remembering the lives lost in the Holocaust through a special ceremony as part of National Holocaust Remembrance Day which falls on the 27th day of the first month of the Hebrew calendar. Congregation Beth Israel member Laurie Beth Susman said, “Today is Yom Hashoah, or National Holocaust Remembrance Day, so synagogues and Jewish communities all across the United States and Israel take this day to recognize those who were lost in the Holocaust, but it’s not just the six million Jews we remember, but also the millions and millions of others who also perished during the Holocaust.”
As part of the ceremony, members of the congregation will read out a small section of the six million names that belong to men and women of the Jewish community that died during the Holocaust. By joining forces with other synagogues, all six million names will be read aloud before the ceremony ends.
Congregation Beth Israel also welcomed a guest speaker, one who saw the carnage of World War II up close and personal, Jack Oyster, a WWII vet and prisoner of war who spent time in German internment camps. “We were shot down and I landed, parachuted from the plane and landed in somebody’s courtyard, immediately taken prisoner. How can somebody be that inhuman to his fellow man? It’s unbelievable. Why they happened to pick on the Jewish race in Germany, I don’t know. I don’t understand that at all, but I don’t understand what’s going on today. American’s cannot conceive that kind of brutality and horror, it’s inconceivable to me,” said Oyster.