Annually, the Jewish world stops to pay tribute to the six million victims of the Holocaust on the 27th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan – which this year begins the evening of Wednesday, April 15 and ends the evening of April 16. In Connecticut, Yom HaShoah commemorations are planned from the time Passover ends until the end of the month.

SUNDAY, APRIL 12

Southbury – Yom HaShoah program with guest speaker Rita Frost on Varian Fry, who saved more than 2,000 Jews during the Holocaust; 4 p.m.; Walzer Family Campus, 444 Main St. North, (203) 267-3177. FREE

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

Fairfield – Community-wide Yom HaShoah Program with guest speaker, filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger, discussing his film, “The Flat” ; 7 p.m.; Congregation Beth El, 1200 Fairfield Woods Rd., (203) 374-5544.

Greenwich – “Numbered,” documentary of Auschwitz survivors, followed by community remembrance program; screening at 6 p.m., program at 7 p.m.; hosted by JCC Greenwich and UJA Greenwich at Temple Sholom, 300 E. Putnam Ave., jccgreenwich.org. FREE

Stamford – Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration; 7-8:30 p.m.; hosted by UJF of Greater Stamford, New Canaan and Darien, at Temple Beth El, 350 Roxbury Rd., (203) 653-2668.

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

Ridgefield – Community-wide Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day; memorial service including prayers, readings, songs related to the Holocaust; organized by Ridgefield Clergy Association, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church; 7:30 p.m.

Storrs – Holocaust Convocation and Fierberg Lecture: “Raphael Lemkin: Unsung Hero of the Holocaust,” with Berel Lang, a Holocaust scholar and professor of Jewish studies; In 1951, Lemkin’s efforts led to the adoption of the UN resolution establishing the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; 3:30 p.m.; in UConn’s Homer Babbidge Library Building, Class of ’47 Room. FREE

West Hartford – Musical Memorial to the Holocaust featuring Jeremy Eichler, classical music critic for the Boston Globe, and soprano Rachel Abrams, singing the works of German-Jewish refugee musicians, Arnold Schonberg, Kurt Weill, Ruth Schontal and Andre Previn; in the Wilde Auditorium of the University of Hartford, (860) 768-5018, mgcjs@hartford.edu. FREE

FRIDAY, APRIL 17

Hartford – 37th Annual State of CT Holocaust Commemoration, with keynote speaker Judith Alter Kallman; 11 a.m.; Senate Chambers, CT State Capitol, 210 Capitol Ave., (860) 727-5771. Reservations by April 13.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18

Southport – Congregation for Humanistic Judaism Yom Hashoah program, with short film, “Why We Remember the Holocaust,” reading of the play “Children of the Holocaust,” and “Bystander or Upstander” project presentations by Fairfield University students; 7:30 p.m.; Southport Congregational Church, 524 Pequot Ave., (203) 293-8867.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19

Danielson – Holocaust Memorial Day, with guest speaker Martin Silver, who retrofitted a yacht used to smuggle 1,400 survivors to Israel in 1948; 1-3 p.m.; Temple Beth Israel, 39 Killingly Dr., (413) 253-7948. $18/adults; $10/students; FREE/Holocaust survivors

Hamden – Holocaust Commemoration featuring guest speaker Ruth Minsky Sender, a Holocaust survivor and author of three award-winning memoirs; 1 p.m.; Peter C. Hereld House for Jewish Life at Quinnipiac University, 560 New Road, (203) 582-8206. FREE

West Hartrford – Yom Hashoah VeHagevurah (Holocaust Commemoration Day) program featuring guest speaker Ruth Fishman, a Holocaust survivor; 7 p.m.; preceded at 6 p.m. by a reading of the names of Holocaust victims and deceased survivors (a second reading of the names will take place on Apr. 20, 8 a.m.; submit names to be read to Sheri Gaudet, (860) 231-6351, sgaudet@mandelljcc.org. Survivors and their families may also participate in a candle procession; hosted by JFACT, Voices of Hope, and the Mandell JCC at Beth El Temple, 2626 Albany Ave.

Woodbridge – Yom Hashoah Community Commemoration; 2-5 p.m.; JCC of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Rd., (203) 387-2522

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

Fairfield – Annual Holocaust Commemoration with guest speaker Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, author and a convert to Judaism; the son of a highly decorated Nazi tank commander, he was raised to believe the Holocaust never happened; 7:30 p.m.; First Church Congregational, 148 Beach Rd.