Photos from the opening ceremony marking Holocaust Martyr’s and Heroes’ Remembrance Day 2017 April 24, 2017 Share 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.
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