Across the country, today (Thursday) will mark Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Throughout the day, ceremonies and rallies will be held – at Yad Vashem, in the Knesset at the Ghetto Fighters’ Museum and also at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
The main events
10:00 | A two-minute siren will sound throughout the country. After the siren, the wreath-laying ceremony will begin at the foot of the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at Yad Vashem, with the participation of the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Knesset, the President of the Supreme Court and representatives from Israel and around the world.
11:00 | “Everybody has a name” ceremonies in the Knesset and in a memorial tent at Yad Vashem, in which elected officials will read the names of their family members who perished in the Holocaust
13:00 | The main memorial service in the Tent of Remembrance
15:00 | The parade of life, which returns this year to take place physically in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland
17:30 | A rally of youth movements, in the presence of the Minister of Education in the Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem
20:00 | An assembly at the Ghetto Fighters’ House, attended by President Yitzhak Herzog
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Yesterday, Holocaust Remembrance Day events opened at the state rally held at Yad Vashem. In a speech delivered by President Yitzhak Herzog, it was stated that “the mass killing of the Jewish people, the darkest hour of mankind, began in what was later called – ‘the Holocaust in bullets’.”
On the eve of Holocaust Martyrs ‘and Heroes’ Remembrance Day President Herzog at Yad Vashem Ceremony: “Doubting Israel’s Right to Exist is Anti-Semitism” https://t.co/33FZitPvNG@yaara_shapira pic.twitter.com/d20kBO8aEf
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He then added: “The Nazi beast of prey accelerated the processes of extermination, until they reached monstrous proportions. Millions of our people were tortured. Murdered. Slaughtered. By the most formidable evil machine the human family has ever known.” “We must act in a cohesive and determined manner in the face of the terror and hatred that organizations and countries are waging against us, and fortify Israel’s power as an iron wall in defending our enemies. Doubting Israel’s right to exist is not legitimate diplomacy, but anti-Semitism in its name.”