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| Holocaust Remembrance Day marked | Holocaust Remembrance Day marked |
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| The wail of sirens brought Israel to a standstill this morning for a two minute silence to remember the victims of the Holocaust. | The wail of sirens brought Israel to a standstill this morning for a two minute silence to remember the victims of the Holocaust. |
| At a memorial ceremony Prime Minister Netanyahu said Holocaust deniers would never be allowed to carry out another Holocaust of the Jewish people. | At a memorial ceremony Prime Minister Netanyahu said Holocaust deniers would never be allowed to carry out another Holocaust of the Jewish people. |
| Six million Jews were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust after 1942. | Six million Jews were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust after 1942. |
| Ceremonies of remembrance are planned across the world, including in Germany and at Auschwitz in Poland. | Ceremonies of remembrance are planned across the world, including in Germany and at Auschwitz in Poland. |
| During the two minute silence in Israel pedestrians stopped in their tracks, drivers pulled over and got out of their cars and people in offices rose to stand next to their desks. | During the two minute silence in Israel pedestrians stopped in their tracks, drivers pulled over and got out of their cars and people in offices rose to stand next to their desks. |
| Sixty-four years after, we still have to deal with prejudice, with hate, with those that are trying to do everything they can in order to destroy the Jewish state, the state of Israel Silvan ShalomIsraeli vice-Prime Minister | Sixty-four years after, we still have to deal with prejudice, with hate, with those that are trying to do everything they can in order to destroy the Jewish state, the state of Israel Silvan ShalomIsraeli vice-Prime Minister |
| At Yad Vashem, twin sisters Lia and Iudit, who survived the Holocaust, lit a torch to open the remembrance day ceremony, before Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu laid a wreath. | At Yad Vashem, twin sisters Lia and Iudit, who survived the Holocaust, lit a torch to open the remembrance day ceremony, before Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu laid a wreath. |
| Mr Netanyahu said it was the supreme commitment of the state of Israel to never again let the Jewish people perish in a Holocaust. | Mr Netanyahu said it was the supreme commitment of the state of Israel to never again let the Jewish people perish in a Holocaust. |
| Critical voices | Critical voices |
| The Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked in communities all over Israel. Later on an official ceremony is to be held in the Knesset. | The Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked in communities all over Israel. Later on an official ceremony is to be held in the Knesset. |
| But critics have said that while too much is being done to commemorate the dead, too little thought goes to the living. Tens of thousand of Holocaust survivors are believed to be living in Israel below the poverty line. | But critics have said that while too much is being done to commemorate the dead, too little thought goes to the living. Tens of thousand of Holocaust survivors are believed to be living in Israel below the poverty line. |
| It is a gift that today Jewish life flourishes again in Germany. But that venues of Jewish life must be protected from old and new extremists by police that is a disgrace. German President Horst Koehler | It is a gift that today Jewish life flourishes again in Germany. But that venues of Jewish life must be protected from old and new extremists by police that is a disgrace. German President Horst Koehler |
| In Germany the parliament commemorated the day with an address by President Horst Koehler. | In Germany the parliament commemorated the day with an address by President Horst Koehler. |
| In Poland Holocaust survivors will walk from Auschwitz to the site of the death camp in Birkenau in the annual March of the Living. Among the participants will be Israeli vice-Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. | |
| At a ceremony in Auschwitz Mr Shalom said: "We in the same day yesterday marked the birthday of Hitler, April 20. Today we are marking the Memorial Day of the Holocaust and those days together are showing us that 64 years after, we still have to deal with prejudice, with hate, with those that are trying to do everything they can in order to destroy the Jewish state, the state of Israel. " | |
| The Israeli vice premier also referred to the strong attacks on Israel, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made on Monday at a UN conference in Switzerland: "What we faced yesterday in Geneva is shameful. Shameful to those countries that have decided to back Iran, to Switzerland that have decided to host and to have the Iranian president. | |
| "Unfortunately it was a very strong, a very wrong message to the whole world, that a man like Ahmadinejad can hold such kind of opinions but in the same time to be accepted by the President of Switzerland". | |
| The biggest event to mark the day in the US will take place in Washington at the Holocaust Memorial Museum which described the day as a reminder to Americans "of what can happen to civilized people when bigotry, hatred and indifference reign". |