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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/02_288.jpg?itok=5lqhIHgm)
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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/01_364.jpg?itok=wfOTFqF3)
![Adv. Joseph A. Melamed 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/03_239.jpg?itok=9HKyIPaW)
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![Adv. Joseph A. Melamed 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/03_239.jpg?itok=e_nMFqiA)
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![Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council lights the Memorial Torch during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/04_184.jpg?itok=cjLJVtz4)
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![IDF soldiers stand at attention during the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/05_155.jpg?itok=NzWh-ylT)
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![Holocaust survivor Bat-Sheva Dagan lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/06_120.jpg?itok=rlCBcSZf)
![Holocaust survivor Anatoly Rubin lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/07_85.jpg?itok=qzNfWZ7z)
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![Holocaust survivor Anatoly Rubin lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/07_85.jpg?itok=npMaql4t)
![Holocaust survivor Eliezer Lev-Zion lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/08_68.jpg?itok=NWVMxmew)
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![Holocaust survivor Eliezer Lev-Zion lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/08_68.jpg?itok=ORaYGAxp)
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![Holocaust survivor Chasia Vardi lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/09_56.jpg?itok=MDzDT9_q)
![Holocaust survivor Yehuda Widawski lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/10_41.jpg?itok=uWzVawEU)
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![Holocaust survivor Yehuda Widawski lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/10_41.jpg?itok=JbgIMynS)
![Holocaust survivor Artemis Miron lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/11_28.jpg?itok=yuaitdpP)
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![Holocaust survivor Artemis Miron lights one of the six torches at the ceremony](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/11_28.jpg?itok=iePFo4Gz)
![The six torchlighters](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/14_11.jpg?itok=uLBW4_Ag)
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![The six torchlighters](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/14_11.jpg?itok=d4xhe364)