Watch: Israelis stop and stand still as sirens mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

Sirens went off for 2 minutes at 10:00 a.m. throughout Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jews, Christians and tourists alike stop whatever they’re doing to honor the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

 

At 10 a.m. on Thursday morning, Israel came to a standstill as sirens blared throughout the country to commemorate the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi regime. During the two minute siren, traffic came to a standstill and people stopped working to remember the Holocaust.

Holocaust Remembrance Day in Tel Aviv, israel – YouTube screenshot

The siren will be followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem’s Warsaw Ghetto Square attended by President Reuven Rivlin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other senior governmental, military, and political figures.

Afterward, at the Hall of Remembrance, a ceremonial reading of the names of Holocaust victims will take place.

On Thursday, Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog will speak at a memorial at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum.

Also Thursday, the Jewish National Fund and B’nai B’rith will hold a memorial at Jerusalem’s Martyrs’ Forest to posthumously honor a Greek rabbi who led partisans against the Nazis.

“The phenomenon of Jewish rescue and the instructive stories of thousands of Jews who labored to save their endangered brethren throughout Europe are yet to receive appropriate public recognition and resonance,” the two groups said in a statement.

On Wednesday night at the annual state Holocaust commemoration at Yad Vashem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel reserves the right to defend itself against a nuclear Iran as he compared in his address the Iranian regime with that of the Nazis.

 

View original The Jerusalem Post publication at: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-comes-to-a-standstill-as-sirens-blare-for-Holocaust-Remembrance-Day-398274

 

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