Light a virtual candle for Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11-12, 2018, and join the worldwide commemoration. Your candle will burn for 24 hours. Please share the app with your family and friends under Options > Send Candle to Others. You can re-open your app anytime and see your candle’s flickering flame. After 24 hours, you will receive a notification that the flame has gone out.

Why would you download this app?
--In addition to lighting a physical candle, you wish to observe Yom HaShoah in another way.
--You live in a place where you cannot light candles, such as an apartment, nursing home, or college dorm room.
--You will be out of town and can’t light the candle at home.
--You don’t have a candle and you want to light one.
--You find it meaningful to download apps like this on your phone.

New features include:
-Vintage photos to tap to read the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors.
-A button for users to tap to “light” the candle themselves.
-A button where the user can easily Share the Candle with Others, via Twitter, Facebook, text message, email and more.
-On the screen where the user reads a paragraph of text after the candle is lit, the “Hear It” button is an audio reading.
-An option to view the time you selected for your notification, and to change it if you wish.
-A tutorial to learn more about the app functions and purpose.