Holocaust Remembrance Day
Marchers hold up Israeli flags as they arrive in the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark the annual Holocaust remembrance in Oswiecim, Poland, on Tuesday during the annual “March of the Living.” The event, which commemorates the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, was launched in 1988, drawing thousands of people from around the world, from Jewish youngsters to elderly Holocaust survivors. Organizers estimated that half of the 8,000 people who gathered this year were not Jewish. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Images)
A youngster draped in a Polish flag on the perimeter of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Participants from all over the world gathered for “March of the Living,” an annual Holocaust commemoration. (Jacek Bednarczyk / EPA)
It was an emotional day for participants in the “March of the Living” event in Poland commemorating the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Images)
Names of Holocaust victims are recited in the Hall of Remembrances in the
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An Orthodox Jew visits Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and looks around the Hall of Names, which displays some 600 portraits of Jews who perished in the Holocaust of
A young Jew walks along a railway during the annual “March of the Living” at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Alik Keplicz / Associated Press)
A Jewish teen rests a hand on the barbed-wire fence surrounding the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Images)
