Light a virtual candle for Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 23-24, 2017, 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 this year include:
- A button for users to tap to “light” the candle themselves.
- On the screen where the user reads a paragraph of text after the candle is lit, the “Hear It” button is an audio reading.
- A button where the user can easily Share the Candle with Others, via Twitter, Facebook, text message, email and more.
- 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.