Israel Stops to Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

(Times of Israel) Gavriel Fiske and Aaron Kalman - Israel stood still for two minutes on Monday morning in memory of the six million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust. Traffic, schools and workplaces came to a halt as the official siren sounded nationwide at 10 a.m. At the Knesset, the names of relatives, friends and acquaintances of legislators and their families who were victims of the Holocaust were read out from the podium.


2013-04-08 00:00:00

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