Israel is marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day beginning at sunset Sunday.
In Poland, more than 10,000 young Jews from Israel and around the world gathered to take part in the annual 3-kilometre "March of the Living" from Auschwitz (Oswiecim in Polish) to Birkenau, both parts of the Nazis' largest death camp in the years during World War II. The state of Israel was established just three years after the end of the war and hundreds of thousands of survivors made their way here.
Amir and Rotem Lev Zwickel, an Israeli couple living in NY, launched a mobile app called Standing Still that allows people anywhere in the world to stop and stand in silence during the Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israeli Memorial Day two-minute sirens, just as virtually all Israelis do.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's official Holocaust memorial site, warning that anti-Semitism remains a global problem.
Sunday night marks the start of Holocaust Remembrance in Israel also, when the country pauses to remember the victims.
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- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will dedicate a new conservation and research center in Maryland on Monday to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day. Cafes and places of entertainment shut down while TV and radio stations broadcast documentaries about the Holocaust and its victims.
"We have to be able to defend ourselves on our own against any threat against any enemy", he declared. He said although the Holocaust is "permanently branded in our flesh" it "is not the lens through which we should examine our past and our future".
President Reuven Rivlin took a different approach.
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