Förintelsens minnesdag

Idag firar man i Israel Förintelsens minnesdag. Klockan 10 ljöd sirenerna över hela Israel och bl.a. trafiken stannade upp.
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with sirens, memorials (Haaretz)
"Israel fell silent on Monday morning as a two-minute-long siren wailed across the country to mark Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Day. As the siren sounded at 10 A.M., traffic came to a total standstill. Drivers stood next to their cars and pedestrians stopped walking, many of them standing at attention or with their heads bowed. The siren opened the annual memorial at Yad Vashem, Israel's state Holocaust memorial authority, in Jerusalem. Wreaths were laid at the foot of the memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Other ceremonies will be held throughout the day at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai and Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, as well as in schools and military bases. Yad Vashem picked "Voices of the Survivors" as the theme of this year's commemoration, which began Sunday night with a state ceremony and continues through Monday evening. A special exhibition of the works of Holocaust survivors will open at Yad Vashem on Monday afternoon. "The voice of the survivors is the link that binds the painful and tormented history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to the future, to hope and to rebirth," Yad Vashem said on its Web site. "