Photos from the opening ceremony marking Holocaust Martyr’s and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2017

April 24, 2017
The IDF Paratroopers’ Guard of Honor during the ceremony; photo courtesy Yad VaShem.
Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate lights the Memorial Torch at the beginning of the ceremony; photo courtesy Yad VaShem.
Holocaust survivor Moshe Ha-Elion lights one of the six torches at the ceremony; photo courtesy Yad VaShem.
Holocaust survivor Max Privler lights one of the six torches at the ceremony; photo courtesy Yad VaShem.
Holocaust survivor Elka Abramovitz lights one of the six torches at the ceremony; photo courtesy Yad VaShem.