![Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_0150.jpg?itok=WnsmkS8h)
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![Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_0150.jpg?itok=5ZLY4LNd)
![President Shimon Peres gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_0127_1.jpg?itok=HTn_AS3J)
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![President Shimon Peres gives his address at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_0127_1.jpg?itok=FL7051oo)
![Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, gives the address on behalf of the survivors at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_0219.jpg?itok=5JxicOMo)
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![Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, gives the address on behalf of the survivors at the opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_0219.jpg?itok=j5K-rC3I)
![Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev lights the Memorial Torch during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_0099_0.jpg?itok=hd7MKn2u)
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![Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev lights the Memorial Torch during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_0099_0.jpg?itok=pkJ5pbZf)
![Twins Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber (nées Csengeri) light one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/DSC_0195_0.jpg?itok=vpPUolQ2)
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![Twins Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber (nées Csengeri) light one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/DSC_0195_0.jpg?itok=eM7HUP2c)
![Violinist David Strongin (left), playing the violin that belonged to young partisan Motteleh Schlein, and violinists Michael Feigin (center) and Mark Karlinsky perform "Eli Eli Lama Azavtani", a melody from Psalms Chapter 22](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/IMG_0073.jpg?itok=adjUZnkB)
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
![Violinist David Strongin (left), playing the violin that belonged to young partisan Motteleh Schlein, and violinists Michael Feigin (center) and Mark Karlinsky perform "Eli Eli Lama Azavtani", a melody from Psalms Chapter 22](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/IMG_0073.jpg?itok=wU9ffAwi)
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Entrance to the Holocaust History Museum is not permitted for children under the age of 10. Babies in strollers or carriers will not be permitted to enter.
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem
Photograph: Yossi Ben David/Yad Vashem