At all the Yom HaShoah services I've ever been to, all the dead were remembered. Speak for what you know Guest, and don't assume that your experiences and attitudes are the norm.
Alex, have you actually been to a Yom Ha Shoah service? Did they not mention all who died?
Yes, people are dieing today in Israel, Palestinian Arabs as well as Jews. And yes, it is a terrible waste of life. But that does not mean that we should not remember the Holocaust.
I lived at Dachau in the early 1950's and there were still quite a few displaced persons living in the detention camps.(DP's are those who have no papers and cannot prove what country they belong to) I talked to them sometimes. On the gate was a plaque that read,"NEVER AGAIN.
For that reasom alone Yom HaShoah is important.We must never, ever forget.

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