VIPs often kick off their visits to Israel at Yad Vashem and Jerusalem’s Old City, where they pray at the Western Wall and other holy sites.
Bettina Malka-Igelbusch is a German-Israeli citizen and a convert from a Catholic family. Confronting her own family's Holocaust history, she works now at Yad Vashem.
The Holocaust was an event without parallel in human history and the Nazi drive to murder Jews was singular and obsessive.
During his speech, the prime minister told the story of a Holocaust survivor, Benjamin Zeev Wertzberger who moved to Israel after surviving Mauthausen Concentration Camp.
The president appealed to the country to leave political discourse aside over Holocaust Remembrance Day in his speech at the Yad Vashem ceremony.
Holocaust survivor Efraim Mol was rushed to the hospital. In his place, the El Maleh Rahamim prayer will be recited by Shuli Rand.
This year, the central theme of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust and the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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