Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day begins tonight, one week before Independence Day. The theme for this year’s commemorations is, “Their Last Voice: Letters and Testaments from Jews in the Holocaust.” The official opening ceremony takes place tonight at 8 PM at the Warsaw Ghetto Square, in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, with the participation of President Moshe Katzav and Prime Minister Sharon. Katzav noted that anti-Semitism is once again on the rise around the world.
Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, will kindle the Holocaust Memorial Torch, Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau will recite Psalms, and Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron will recite the Kaddish prayer. Tomorrow at 10 AM, a two-minute memorial siren will be sounded throughout the country, in remembrance of the more than six million Jews murdered in Europe by the Nazi regime between 1941-1945.
All places of entertainment in Israel will be closed, in accordance with the law. The now-traditional March of the Living will take place in Poland tomorrow afternoon between Birkenau and Auschwitz, to commemorate the Jews\' forced Death March along the same route in the 1940\'s. Education Minister Limor Livnat will take part.
Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, will kindle the Holocaust Memorial Torch, Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau will recite Psalms, and Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron will recite the Kaddish prayer. Tomorrow at 10 AM, a two-minute memorial siren will be sounded throughout the country, in remembrance of the more than six million Jews murdered in Europe by the Nazi regime between 1941-1945.
All places of entertainment in Israel will be closed, in accordance with the law. The now-traditional March of the Living will take place in Poland tomorrow afternoon between Birkenau and Auschwitz, to commemorate the Jews\' forced Death March along the same route in the 1940\'s. Education Minister Limor Livnat will take part.