Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with this year’s group of torchlighters ahead of the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem, which will take place tomorrow night.
Netanyahu hears the personal testimonies of Holocaust survivors Tova Gutstein, Ben-Zion Raisch, Judith Sohlberg, Reuven (Robert) Bonfil, Efim Gimelshtein and Malka Rendel, who will be lighting torches this year, and were selected because their stories fit this year’s theme of “Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.”
“Your stories are a model for the human spirit, and for the greatness of the soul that lies within our people,” Netanyahu tells the group. “Your personal stories are intertwined with the story of our national revival, and there is no better illustration of that.”
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