Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Remembrance Flame burns during a commemorative ceremony on the occasion of the Shoah (Holocaust) Remembrance Day in front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva April 20, 2009. Israel on Monday night mark the annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening ceremony of the annual Holocaust Memorial Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem April 20, 2009. The central theme of this year's ceremony is Children in the Holocaust. Some 1.5 million Jewish children were killed by the Nazis
A holocaust survivor attends a ceremony marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, on April 21, 2009
Participants light candles during a commemorative ceremony on the occasion of the Shoah (Holocaust) Remembrance Day in front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva April 20, 2009
People attend a ceremony marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2009. Israel paused Monday night in memory of the six million Jews who perished from 1933 to 1945, as the Jewish state marked the start of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Visitors look at a display of pictures at an exhibition in Tel Aviv April 20, 2009, showing Jewish soccer players at the Theresienstadt ghetto in the Czech Republic during World War Two.
A twin sisters of holocaust survivors attend a ceremony marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2009.
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