Holocaust remembered in Israel and Poland

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May 5, 2016 at 1:30 PM

A man sits on the railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual March of the Living to remember the Holocaust, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, center right, and Israeli Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked, center left, walk through the gate with the inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Makes You Free”) in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp at the start of the 25th March of the Living, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Alik Keplicz/AP)

A Holocaust victim’s relative lays flowers on the names of concentration camps at the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Dan Balilty/AP)

Israeli border police officers stand still as a siren sounds during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Forest of the Martyrs, near Moshav Kesalon, in central Israel, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Dan Balilty/AP)

Wreaths marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Warsaw Ghetto Square at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Israeli soldiers stand in silence as sirens wailed across Israel for two minutes marking the annual day of remembrance for victims of the Holocaust, near the Gaza border, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

A girl places a plaque on the railroad tracks at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau during the yearly March of the Living, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Alik Keplicz/AP)

Children take part in the March of the Living at the Paneriai memorial in memory of the Jews of Vilnius, Lithuania murdered during World War II. Between July 1941 and August 1944, approximately 100,000 people, more than half of whom were Jewish, were murdered at the site by the Nazis and Lithuanian death squads. (Photo: Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)

Children holding Jewish stars sing in front of a granite Holocaust memorial, in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)

Israelis in Tel Aviv stand next to their cars as a siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Beachgoers stand still as a two-minute siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel is sounded in Netanya, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters)

People wave Israeli flags in front of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual March of the Living, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/AP)

Prisoners, center, stand next to prison staff during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, at Rimonim Prison, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Nir Elias/Reuters)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Dan Balilty/AP Pool)

People stand still as a two-minute siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day is sounded in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Ammar Awad/Reuters)

Holocaust survivors and their relatives lay wreaths during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016.(Photo: Dan Balilty/AP)

Michael Tal, director of the artifacts department at Yad Vashem, holds a shoe belonging to a child Holocaust victim, during an event unveiling artifacts that are not on general display, on Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Israelis stand still next to their cars as a siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust in Tel Aviv, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

A girl looks at a plaque she just placed on the tracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the annual March of the Living, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Alik Keplicz/AP)

Israeli soldiers stand guard during Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Dan Balilty, AP Pool)

Participants in the March of the Living walk on the rails that led to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Alik Keplicz/AP)

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin lays a wreath during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Dan Balilty/Reuters Pool)

Israeli soldiers take part in a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Stones are placed at the foot of a granite Holocaust memorial in memory of the Jews killed by the Nazis in Vilnius, Lithuania, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)

A man sits on the railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual March of the Living to remember the Holocaust, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

A man sits on the railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual March of the Living to remember the Holocaust, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

Israel and Poland are among the countries paying respects to the memory of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended the official ceremony at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.

On Thursday, Israelis paused from their daily routines to remember the dead. A siren sounded, pedestrians stopped in their tracks and motorists pulled over on highways and roads to as a mournful, two-minute standstill

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Holocaust remembered in Israel and Poland

A man sits on the railway tracks in the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as thousands of people, mostly youth from all over the world, gather for the annual March of the Living to remember the Holocaust, in Brzezinka, Poland, May 5, 2016. (Photo: Kacper Pempel/Reuters)

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