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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day Two-minute nationwide siren followed by memorial ceremonies and reading aloud the names of those who perished. Ceremonies marking Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day began Monday at 10:00 AM with a siren that sounded for two minutes, during which Israelis all over the country stood in silence. Immediately afterward, a wreath-laying ceremony began at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial at Warsaw Ghetto Square, attended by President Shimon Peres, Prime...

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