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General information about Holocaust Remembrance Day: including description and schedule of events that will take place marking the day Rational explaining this year's theme of: Until The Last Jew...Until The Last Name Photos and Pages of Testimony related to: Until The Last Jew...Until The Last Name Artwork from Yad Vashem's Art Museum Collection related to this year's theme Names for Name Reading, Ceremonies Download, Pages of Testimony for Submission, Online Ceremonies, Torchlighters, Events During the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Day Ceremony, six torches symbolizing the six million Jews are lit.

Scenes from the opening ceremony marking Holocaust Martyr's and Heroes' Remembrance Day 18/4.2004

Israeli paratrooper lights memorial candle before the ceremony begins.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaking at the ceremony marking Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day.

President Moshe Katsav speaking at the ceremony marking Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day.

Mrs. Ruth Elias on behalf of the survivors 

Paratroopers stand at attention during ceremony

Vera (Miriam) Dotan lights a torch during the ceremony

Scenes from wreath-laying ceremony in the Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem 19.4.2004

Scene of crowd gathered at Yad Vashem for wreath-laying ceremony

Jewish war veterans attend ceremony

The crowd stands silently as the siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day is sounded. Left to Right- Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Prof. Szewach Weiss, Chairmen of the Yad Vashem Directorate, Avner Shalev, Mrs. Gila Katsav, President Moshe Katsav, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Speaker of the Knesset Ruby Rivlin, Nechama Rivlin, Chief Justice Aharon Barak and Justice Elisheva Barak.

President Moshe Katsav lays a wreath

Prime Minister Sharon pays silent tribute to the victims after he lays a wreath

Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon prepares to lay a wreath

Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, Avner Shalev (left) and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Prof. Szewach Weiss prepare to lay a wreath

Warsaw Ghetto Square at the conclusion of the wreath-laying ceremony

Recitation of Holocaust Victims' Names in the Hall of Remembrance 19/4/2004

Reading names of victims in the Hall of Remembrance

Reading names of victims in the Hall of Remembrance

 Maxi Librati rekindling the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Remembrance

Ceremony for youth movements 19.04.2004

Israeli singer Sarit Hadad performing in the Valley

Lighting the memorial torch in the Valley

Representatives of youth groups who participated in the ceremony in the Valley

Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, Avner Shalev, speaking during the ceremony

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