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WATCH: Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Zev Stub 23 April 2025, 8:05 pm 1 Edit

Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent.

The annual Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony has started at Yad Vashem’s Warsaw Ghetto Square in Jerusalem.

This year’s theme for the ceremony is “Out of the Depths: The Anguish of Liberation and Rebirth.”

President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will both deliver remarks. Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan will light the Memorial Torch.

Six Holocaust survivors will light torches: Arie Durst, Monika Barzel, Felix Sorin, Rachel Katz, Arie Reiter and Gad Fartouk.

Eva Erben will deliver remarks on behalf of the survivors while fellow Holocaust survivor Yehuda Hauptman will recite a prayer for the souls of the martyrs.

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