sentences:  "Davar" and later "Haaretz" both used the term in September 1939.Yom HaShoah became Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day in 1951.On 3 October 1941 the "American Hebrew" used the phrase "before the Holocaust", apparently to refer to the situation in France, and in May 1943 the "New York Times", discussing the Bermuda Conference, referred to the "hundreds of thousands of European Jews still surviving the Nazi Holocaust".