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On the eve of this holiday in the 1980s, a state quizbowl-esque show aired and people marched to the Mann Auditorium singing "Zog nit keyn mol.” For this holiday, Albert Friedlander co-created a book that was intended as a “sixth scroll” and models its structure on the days of creation. It’s not Purim, but Avigdor Shinan created a new version of the Megillah for this holiday. Ishmar Scorsch argued this holiday should be folded into general Tisha B’Av traditions. (15[2])Several Orthodox rabbis have not changed services for this holiday and instead endorse a “General (*) Kaddish Day.” Yellow candles lit on this holiday may include an additional one dedicated to “the righteous.” (10[1])On this holiday on the 27th of Nisan, traffic stops during a series of air raid sirens at 10 AM. For 10 points, name this modern Jewish holiday in which a “March of the Living” walks between Birkenau and Auschwitz to honor victims of a genocide. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Holocaust Remembrance Day [or Holocaust Day; accept Yom HaShoah or Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah; accept the Day of remembrance of the Catastrophe and the Heroism; accept answers indicating a day for memorializing or remembering the Holocaust] (The first line is “The International Quiz on Jewish Heroism during World War II.” The second line is Six Days of Destruction, which was co-written by Elie Wiesel.)
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