Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana has opened the candle-lighting ceremony at the entrance to the Knesset.
"In my office, there is always a thick, heavy tome, and when it is opened, it is hard to read what is written there," he said. "The letters are small and crowded, and when you bring it closer, you see that it is the word 'Jew' that appears there, six million times. There are no names in this book.
"But when you realize that one line in this book is a class full of students; several lines are the entire school; a page is a village; a few pages is a city; then you begin to grasp what we have lost, how much we have lost. On this day, we mention the names and later, we will also remember some of the stories," Ohana said.
"Isaac Dari, born in 1912 in Oujda, Morocco. Murdered in 1943 in the Majdanek concentration camp when he was 31. I light this candle for the ascendance of his soul. May G-d avenge his death, and may his memory be for a blessing."