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Israel Pauses as Nationwide Holocaust Remembrance Day Siren Sounds
(Ynet News-Jerusalem Post) A two-minute siren sounded across Israel at 10 a.m. Tuesday, bringing traffic and daily life to a standstill as the country paused in silence to honor the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Immediately afterward, a state wreath-laying ceremony was held at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. The Knesset held its annual "Every Person Has a Name" ceremony which included ministers and Knesset Members who read the names of family members lost in the Holocaust. Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana noted, "Four million and eight hundred thousand names have been collected by Yad Vashem for the Book of Names project, yet at least another million names are still missing. Entire families, and sometimes entire communities, were wiped off the face of the earth, leaving not even a trace, not even a single survivor to testify that they ever existed."