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JERUSALEM, May 1 (UPI) -- Holocaust Remembrance Day began Thursday in Israel with a moment of silence and a 2-minute siren wail as Israelis honored victims of the World War II atrocity.
The siren, set off at 10 a.m., could be heard throughout the nation as Israelis stood with heads bowed, in memory of the 6 million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, Ynetnews reported.
Ceremonies were held at Yad Vashem, where wreaths were laid at the foot of the memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in the Knesset where victims' names were read and at various educational institutions and sites across the country.
Ynetnews said that during the reading of the victims' names, Israeli President Shimon Peres, who recited the names of his grandparents, spokes of his memory of them: "When we said goodbye in the train station, before I left to come to Israel, they gave me just two words -- 'Be Jewish.'"
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