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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 on Tuesday morning for a two-minute silence to remember the victims of the Holocaust. A wail of sirens brought Israel to a standstill on Tuesday 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 ceremony, Prime Minister Benjamin 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 during WWII.
Ceremonies of remembrance are taking place across the world, including in Germany and at Auschwitz in Poland. Remembrance ceremonies were held across the world, including at the former Nazi death camp of 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. Thousands of young Jews and elderly survivors took park in the March of the Living, walking from Auschwitz to the nearby death camp at Birkenau.
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 In Germany, the parliament commemorated the day with an address by President Horst Koehler.
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. 'Supreme commitment'
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 UN 'regrets' Ahmadinejad speech
At the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, survivors Lia and Iudit - twin sisters - lit a torch to open the remembrance day ceremony, before Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Netanyahu laid a wreath.
In the Hall of Remembrance names of the victims were recited.In the Hall of Remembrance names of the victims were recited.
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.
An official ceremony was also held in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.
Critical voicesCritical voices
The Holocaust Remembrance Day is also being marked in communities all over Israel with prayers and musical performances. An official ceremony was held in the Knesset. The Holocaust Remembrance Day is also being marked in communities all over Israel with prayers and musical performances.
But critics have said that while too much is being done to commemorate the dead, too little thought goes to the living. An estimated 250,000 Holocaust survivors are living in Israel, many of them below the poverty line. Some 7,000 people took part in the March of the Living at Auschwitz
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 An estimated 250,000 Holocaust survivors are living in Israel, many below the poverty line.
In Germany the parliament commemorated the day with an address by President Horst Koehler. Critics have accused the state of not doing enough to help them.
In Poland more than 7000 people, some of them survivors of the Holocaust, walked the two miles from Auschwitz to the site of the death camp in Birkenau in the annual March of the Living. Among the participants was Israeli vice-Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. In Poland, about 7,000 people walked the two miles from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Among the participants was Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Silvan Shalom.
At the ceremony in Auschwitz preceding the march 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." Mr Shalom said that 64 years after the Holocaust "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. Mr Shalom also referred to the strong attacks on Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a UN conference in Switzerland.
"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". "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.
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". "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 describes the day as a reminder to Americans "of what can happen to civilized people when bigotry, hatred and indifference reign".