Jewish world commemorates Yom HaShoah.
Today, the Jewish world commemorated Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, holding memorials and educational activities in communities across the Diaspora and in Israel.
Here in Israel Thursday’s commemorations began with the sounding of the Holocaust memorial siren at 10am, which was turned on by eighty six year old July Zelmanowicz, a Ukrainian child survivor.
As the siren sounded citizens across the country stood still, stopping whatever they were doing as highways, industries and commercial centers suddenly came to a standstill.
Thousands of elderly survivors passed the day in residential facilities operated by Amigour, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s sheltered housing subsidiary, the group said in a statement.
Source: Jerusalem Post.
