The Holocaust Days of Remembrance commemoration for 2017 is “Learning from the Holocaust: The Strength of the Human Spirit” and will be held April 23 through April 30, 2017. According to the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute’s website, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systemic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. (Courtesy photo/Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute)