High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust (Ziua Na ional de Comemorare a Holocaustului in Romanian, Themesko Dives vash o Poraimosko Astaripen pe Godyate in Romani) is a national event held on October 9 in Romania. It is dedicated to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust and particularly to reflecting on Romania's role in the Holocaust. Various commemoration events and ceremonies take place throughout Romania in order to remember the Jews and Roma who died in the Holocaust.The first National Day of Commemorating the Holocaust was held in 2004. October 9 was chosen as a date for this event because it marks the beginning of Romanian deportations of Jews to Transnistria, in 1942.