Israel remembers Holocaust victims

JERUSALEM, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial is one of the events taking place in Israel to mark International Holocaust Day.

The conference takes place in the same building in Jerusalem where Eichmann's trial was held, The Jerusalem Post said.

Eichmann, considered one of the key architects of the Final Solution, a Nazi German plan to rid Europe of all Jews, was captured by Mossad agents in 1960. The following year, he went on trial in Jerusalem, was convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged in 1962.

"Today, 66 years after the horror, we are here, in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of our nation. We, the representatives of the Jewish nation, are holding a special ceremony to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in an address before the Knesset Wednesday.

"The lesson that we have learned, first of all, is that we are here, in our sovereign country, in our capital city," Netanyahu said.

To commemorate the day, Internet giant Google partnered with Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem to create the world's largest digital archive of Holocaust victims, allowing people worldwide to pay tribute to the victims, Arutz Sheva said.

A collection of 130,000 photos and documents of Holocaust victims appear on Yad Vashem's official Web site.

German President Christian Wulff and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski joined survivors at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland to commemorate the day Soviet troops liberated the camp in 1945, Radio Free Europe reported.