Uniting with the Six Million: The March of the Living in Auschwitz • Live Broadcast

April 18, 2023   

Holocaust Remembrance Day events: At 10:00 (Tuesday), a two-minute silence was sounded across the country. At 10:02, a wreath-laying ceremony was held in the Yizkor Tent at the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, with the participation of President Yitzhak Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, and representatives of survivor and fighter organizations. 11:00: "Every person has a name": A ceremony to read the names of Holocaust victims and lay wreaths by the general public. The ceremony was held in the Yizkor Tent at Yad Vashem, and simultaneously in the Knesset building under the auspices of Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana. The ceremony is being held in the Knesset for the 34th year and will be held under the theme "Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust - Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." The ceremony will open with the lighting of six memorial candles by Holocaust survivors and their families: Holocaust survivor Felicia Leis, Holocaust survivor Binyamin Bashan, Holocaust survivor Sophie Sachs accompanied by her daughter MK Yasmin Friedman, Holocaust survivor Paulina Davidson accompanied by her son MK Simon Davidson, second-generation Holocaust survivor Chaya Nir accompanied by MK Sharon Nir at her home, and second-generation Holocaust survivor Michaela Akunis accompanied by her son Minister Ofir Akunis. 1:00 PM: State memorial ceremony in the "Yizkor" tent at Yad Vashem. 2:30 PM: The "March of the Living" will open in Poland, marking its 35th anniversary. Thousands of marchers from around the world will participate in the event, with the parade taking place - for the first time in three years after the coronavirus pandemic - in full format and with the participation of delegations from more than 25 countries. 5:30 PM: Youth movement rally in the Valley of Communities Memorial Park at the western end of Yad Vashem. Hundreds of members of the youth movements will participate in the rally. 8:00 PM: Closing rally for Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day events at Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, in the presence of President Yitzhak Herzog. Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana began the tradition of lighting "Yizkor" candles at the entrance to the Mishkan: "I always have a heavy, thick, and weighty book in my office. When you open it, you have trouble reading what it says. The letters are small and dense. And when you get closer, you find that it's the word Jew, which appears six million times in it. There are no names in this book. "But when you realize that one line in the book is the entire class you studied with in school, and how many lines is the entire school, a page is a town, how many pages - an entire city, you begin to understand what we've lost and how much we've lost. "On this day we commemorate the names. We'll also mention the stories later. "I light this candle for the repose of the soul of Isaac Dari, born in 1912 in Oujda, Morocco. He was murdered in 1943 in the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp and he was 31 years old. May God raise his blood and may his memory be blessed.".

Sergeant Uri Maklev reads the names of his family members who perished in the Holocaust at the 'Every Man Has a Name' ceremony

President of the State Yitzhak Herzog participated in the 'Every Man Has a Name' ceremony and called for unity in Israeli society. "We do not remember numbers, we remember lives, people. Because the name of every Jew who went up in flames and eighty years later is still read aloud in Jerusalem, in the legislature of our Jewish and democratic nation-state, is the great victory. I would like to recall here the moving words of Holocaust survivor Shoshana Weiss last night at Yad Vashem, who called on all of us to unite and unite to protect our people and our homeland because we have no other country. Let's listen to her.".