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WORLD LEADERS DURING PRAYER IN HALL OF NAMES IN YAD VASHEM HOLOCAUST HISTORY MUSEUM INAUGURATION IN JERUSALEM

World leaders, including Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (3rd from L) and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (3rd from R) gather under the conical-shaped roof in the Hall of Names in the new Holocaust History Museum as they attend a ceremony honoring the six-million Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis during World War II during the second day of inauguration events in the in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial complex in Jerusalem on Wednesday, 16 March 20006. The Hall of Names contains some 600 photographs of Holocaust victims that spiral up into the conical roof, and on the walls in binders, millions of pages of documentation on the victims. (UPI Photo/Jim Hollander)

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