# Sacred Ground: A Remembrance — Holocaust Enlightenment Ritual

> Holocaust Enlightenment Ritual (iPhone/iPad app by John Kiehl.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sacred-ground/id978439136 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [John Kiehl](https://appshunter.io/developer/489971243)
- Category: Lifestyle, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 9.0 · 237 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2015-03-28
- Data updated: 2026-05-17
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sacred-ground/id978439136/reviews.md

## What is Sacred Ground?

SACRED GROUND is a complete, 10-minute, immersive ritual experience with moving musical and video elements, as well as newly designed ritual prayer components. SACRED GROUND – like all rituals – is designed to change us from collective victims of history to authors of our own destiny. Tragically, the perpetrator’s deeds forever haunt their offspring, their nation and their culture. 

SACRED GROUND is also unique in that it features in its Eclipse Prayer Video rare, pre-war pictures of Holocaust victims and families, courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — families full of life and possibility before their lives were cut short by genocide. The Eclipse Prayer Video opens on the Brandenburg Gate. The camera’s POV immediately travels one block away to the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (German: Stiftung-Denkmal),  and then slowly and solemnly merges with the photos of the families. 

In The Benediction, renowned actor Richard Dreyfus explains how to perform a meaningful ritual to consecrate the lives of the victims, perpetrators, and our post-Holocaust lives. 

Additional app elements include Rabbi/Dr. Moshe Shualy reflecting on life before the Shoah by telling his own personal story as a child of Holocaust survivors. Cantor Emanuel Perlman chants the Memorial Prayer, which he delivered at the United States Capitol Rotunda for the National Day of Remembrance for liberators and Holocaust Survivors. Links are provided to take you to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as well as the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.

Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, is celebrated world-wide each year on April 16, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 2019.07.23 — 2019-09-28

No new features in this version, but rather a complete reworking of the graphics to accommodate  iOS  9,10,11, & 12, as well as all the new device sizes. The app now looks good on all iPhones and iPads.

### 1.1 — 2015-04-14

Bug fixes and small changes in text.

### 1.0 — 2015-03-27

No release notes.

## More apps by John Kiehl

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- [High Holiday Highlights](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/high-holiday-highlights/id557592342)
- [Zen Moments](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zen-moments/id643819510)
- [NKS Explorer HD](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nks-explorer-hd/id1255002903)
- [High Holiday Phone Version](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/high-holiday-phone-version/id1480294245)

All apps by John Kiehl: https://appshunter.io/developer/489971243

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