Pope John Paul II shakes Prime Minister Barak's hand upon his arrival at Yad Vashem.

Pope John Paul II walks towards the the Hall of Remembrance where the ceremony took place accompanied by the Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, Mr. Avner Shalev (left).

Pope John Paul II, together with Prime Minister Barak and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Professor Szewach Weiss.

Prime Minister Barak speaks during the ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance.

Pope John Paul II embraces his childhood friend from Wadowice Poland- Mr. Jerzy Kluger.
Text of Pope John Paul's speech in the Hall of Remembrance.

Avner Shalev presents Pope John Paul II with a reproduction of a Bible illustrated by Carol Deutsch, a Jewish painter from Belgium who perished in the Holocaust.