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Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2011

(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Beginning Sunday evening, May 1, Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah in Hebrew) is a national day of commemoration in Israel, on which the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust are memorialized. Places of entertainment are closed and memorial ceremonies are held throughout the country. At the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem, six torches are lit, representing the six million murdered Jews, among them 1.5 million children. On Monday morning, a siren sounds for two minutes throughout the entire country. For the duration of the siren, work is halted, people walking in the streets stop, cars pull off to the side of the road and everybody stands at silent attention in reverence to the victims of the Holocaust.
2011-04-29 00:00:00
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