Photos: Annual day of Holocaust remembrance 2013
April 8, 2013
People wear Israeli flags around their shoulders as they walk on the railroad tracks inside the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) in Oswiecim-Brzezinka, southern Poland on April 8, 2013. Thousands of mainly Jewish people participated in the 22nd annual "March of the Living", a Holocaust commemoration. REUTERS/Jakub Ociepa/Agencja Gazeta ( POLAND/ )
People walk through the gate, with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work sets you free), of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, southern Poland April 8, 2013. Thousands of mainly Jewish people participated in the 22nd annual "March of the Living", a Holocaust commemoration. REUTERS/Jakub Ociepa/Agencja Gazeta ( POLAND/ )
Participants of the March of the Living walk through a barbed wire fence in the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, April 8, 2013. Jews from Israel and around the world took part in the annual March of the Living on the 3km route from Auschwitz to Birkenau Nazi Death Camps, commemorating the Holocaust victims. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) ( Poland March Of The Living )
A holocaust survivor speaks during the "March of the Living" ceremonies at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp on April 7, 2013 in Oswiecim, Poland. Israeli Defense Force Chief of the General Staff Benny Gantz will be one of the six torch lighters at the ceremony that closes the program. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images) ( 165923587 )
A young Israeli sticks a temporary tattoo of prisoner numbers on his arm, as part of a Holocaust remembrance campaign on April 8, 2013 in Rishon Lezion, Israel. The temporary tattoos replicate the numbers tattooed onto the arms of the prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and allow the wearer to connect with a disappearing generation of survivors. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 166038349 )
A young Israelis woman wears a temporary tattoo of prisoner numbers on her arm as part of a Holocaust remembrance campaign on April 8, 2013 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The temporary tattoos replicate the numbers tattooed onto the arms of the prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and allow the wearer to connect with a disappearing generation of survivors. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 166038346 )
Young Israelis display temporary tattoos of prisoner numbers on their arms as part of a Holocaust remembrance campaign on April 8, 2013 in Rishon Lezion, Israel. The temporary tattoos replicate the numbers tattooed onto the arms of the prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and allow the wearer to connect with a disappearing generation of survivors. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 166035902 )
A holocaust survivor lights a symbolic candle at the Temple Emanu-El during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York on April 7, 2013. The day brings together Holocaust survivors and their families to remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. REUTERS/Allison Joyce ( USA/ )
Holocaust survivors light symbolic candles at the Temple Emanu-El during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York on April 7, 2013. The day brings together Holocaust survivors and their families to remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. REUTERS/Allison Joyce ( USA/ )
People attend a memorial at the Temple Emanu-El during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in New York on April 7, 2013. The day brings together Holocaust survivors and their families to remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. REUTERS/Allison Joyce ( USA/ )
A sculpture by artist Kenneth Treister is reflected in water at the Holocaust Memorial during Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 8, 2013 in Miami Beach, Florida. Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who died during the Holocaust. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ( 166067737 )
Part of a sculpture by artist Kenneth Treister is seen during Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 8, 2013 in Miami Beach, Florida. Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who died during the Holocaust. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ( 166067738 )
Martha Noreno visits the Holocaust Memorial during Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 8, 2013 in Miami Beach, Florida. Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who died during the Holocaust. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ( 166067744 )
Sam Greenberg points out where his family was from on a map of Europe as he and his relatives visit the Holocaust Memorial during Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 8, 2013 in Miami Beach, Florida. Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who died during the Holocaust. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ( 166067745 )
(L-R) Dana Greenberg, Tricia Miner and Ilyse Greenberg look at pictures on display as they visit the Holocaust Memorial during Yom HaShoah-Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 8, 2013 in Miami Beach, Florida. Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who died during the Holocaust. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) ( 166067742 )
Rabbi Alan Londy of the New Reform Temple of Kansas City, Mo., paused for a moment in front of the memorial to the six million Jews killed during a Holocaust Memorial Service on Sunday, April 7, 2013 at the Jewish Community Campus in Overland Park, Kan. The service commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. It also marked the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the memorial to the six million. ( Holocaust Memorial Service )
Visitors look at pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust in the Hall of Names in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Sunday, April 7, 2013. The annual Israeli memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust of World War II begins at sundown Sunday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Holocaust )
A visitor looks at an installation at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem on April 7, 2013. Starting Sunday evening, Israel marks the annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun ( ISRAEL/ )
Visitors are seen reflected in a picture showing the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Sunday, April 7, 2013. The annual Israeli memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust of World War II begins at sundown Sunday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) ( Mideast Israel Holocaust )
Israeli high school students look at a model of the Warsaw Ghetto at the museum "From Holocaust to Revival" in Kibbutz Yad Mordechai near the costal town of Ashkelon on Sunday, April 7, 2013. The annual Israeli memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust of the World War II begins at sundown Sunday. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) ( Mideast Israel Holocaust )
A woman stands in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, during a ceremony entitled "Unto Every Person There is a Name," marking Israel's annual day of Holocaust remembrance, April 8, 2013. Israel on Monday commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun ( ISRAEL/ )
A relative of Holocaust victims lays flowers next to names of concentration camps during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday, April 8, 2013. Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes Monday as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered by German Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust in World War II. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) ( Mideast Israel Holocaust )
A former Jewish synagogue in Alanta, Lithuania on January 23, 2013. Lithuania's wooden synagogues, the vestiges of a Jewish presence which was wiped out in the Holocaust, are falling into ruin from a lack of funding and support. After the Second World War it was used as a grain warehouse. PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images ( 518693119 )
Warsaw ghetto Holocaust survivor Aliza Vitis-Shomron holds a photograph of herself when she was about 17 years old as she sits in her living room in Kibbutz Givat Oz, Israel on April 4, 2013. Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto. The end was near. Nazi troops had encircled the ghetto, and the remaining Jewish rebels inside were prepared to die fighting. Her job, they told her, was to survive and tell the world about how the fighters died resisting the Nazis. In the 70 years since the revolt, she's been doing just that, publishing a memoir about life in the ghetto and lecturing about the uprising. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ( Mideast Israel Holocaust Uprising Anniversary )
Warsaw ghetto Holocaust survivor Aliza Vitis-Shomron's private mementos placed on a table at her living room in Kibbutz Givat Oz, Israel on April 4, 2013. Two days before her comrades embarked on an uprising that came to symbolize Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II, 14-year-old Aliza Mendel got her orders: Escape from the Warsaw Ghetto. The end was near. Nazi troops had encircled the ghetto, and the remaining Jewish rebels inside were prepared to die fighting. Her job, they told her, was to survive and tell the world about how the fighters died resisting the Nazis. In the 70 years since the revolt, she's been doing just that, publishing a memoir about life in the ghetto and lecturing about the uprising. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ( Mideast Israel Holocaust Uprising Anniversary )
Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor Miriam Helman, 89, sits in her home in Jerusalem on April 7, 2013. Some 192,000 Holocaust survivors live in Israel and about a third have sought aid from the Foundation for the Benefit of the Holocaust Victims in Israel. According to surveys by the foundation, 19 percent of the survivors have admitted to going without adequate amounts of food and 14 percent had to forego medical treatment at least once a year due to financial hardship. The report said that another severe concern for survivors is loneliness. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun ( ISRAEL/ )
People stand still on a street as a two-minute siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day is sounded in Jerusalem on April 8, 2013. Israel on Monday marks the annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War II. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ( ISRAEL/ )
Israeli motorists stand still next to their cars on a freeway as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday, April 8, 2013. Holocaust remembrance day is one of the most solemn on Israel's calendar with restaurants and places of entertainment shut down, and radio and TV programming focused on Holocaust documentaries and interviews with survivors. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) ( Mideast Israel Holocaust )
An Israeli woman stands still while another prays beside her as a two-minute siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day is sounded in Jerusalem on April 8, 2013. Israel on Monday marks the annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. REUTERS/Baz Ratner ( ISRAEL/ )
Elly Miller, of Shavertown, speaks about how her maternal grandmother and some aunts and uncles who were killed in the Holocaust during the Yom Hashoah program, part of the international commemoration of victims of the Holocaust, at the Wilkes-Barre Jewish Community Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. on Sunday, April 7, 2013. Elly shows a postcard that was the last correspondence from her grandmother in Poland to her mother in New York during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/The Citizens' Voice, Kristen Mullen) ( Holocaust Commemoration )
World War II veteran Hebert Isner of Oak Park, Mich., wipes his eyes during the Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Day of Remembrance at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., on Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Elizabeth Conley) ( Holocaust Remembrance Day Detroit )
Holocaust survivors and their relatives hold flowers during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday, April 8, 2013. Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes Monday as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered by German Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust in World War II. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) ( Mideast Israel Holocaust )
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) lays a wreath during the annual ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem memorial on April 8, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Across the world, people commemorated the six million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime during World War II between 1933 and 1945. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's visit is in an attempt to restart mideast peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials. (Photo by Gali Tibbon-Pool/Getty Images) ( 166042699 )
World War II veterans return to their seats after laying a wreath during a ceremony marking Israel's annual day of Holocaust remembrance, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on April 8, 2013. Israel on Monday commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun ( ISRAEL/ )
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Shimon Peres (back to camera) attend a wreath-laying ceremony marking Israel's annual day of Holocaust remembrance, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem April 8, 2013. Israel on Monday commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun ( ISRAEL/ )
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd R) and his wife Teresa leave after a wreath-laying ceremony marking Israel's annual day of Holocaust remembrance, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on April 8, 2013. Israel on Monday commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun ( ISRAEL/ )
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) greets an Israeli official before a wreath-laying ceremony marking Israel's annual day of Holocaust remembrance, at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem April 8, 2013. Israel on Monday commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun ( ISRAEL/ )
Hungarian and foreign university students and their teachers from different countries throw flowers into the Danube River in Budapest, nearby the parliament building on April 8, 2013 during their commemoration for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million Jews, 2 million gypsies (Roma and Sinti) by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK ( 518730649 )
Flowers float on the Danube river during a march of Hungarian and foreign university students and their teachers from different countries in Budapest, nearby the parliament building on April 8, 2013 to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million Jews and 2 million gypsies (Roma and Sinti) by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK ( 518730687 )
Jordan Allen Broder performs "Yih'yu L'ratzon" or "May the Words" on the violin during the beginning of Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Day of Remembrance, at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., on Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Elizabeth Conley) ( Holocaust Remembrance Day Detroit )
The last candle is lit during the service for Yom HaShoah, a Holocaust Day of Remembrance, at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., on Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Elizabeth Conley) ( Holocaust Remembrance Day Detroit )
A Holocaust survivor holds a flower during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday, April 8, 2013. Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes Monday as sirens pierced the air in an annual ritual to remember the 6 million Jews systematically murdered by German Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust in World War II. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) ( APTOPIX Mideast Israel Holocaust )
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