JERUSALEM, May 5 (UPI) -- Israel on Thursday is commemorating the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazi regime in World War II during the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The event was initiated by a torch-lighting ceremony Wednesday evening at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem, the world Holocaust remembrance center. During the ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against recent rising anti-Semitism in Europe, which he said was reminiscent of propaganda that "greased the wheels of the Nazi murder machine."