Who are the Holocaust survivors being honored at Yad Vashem's ceremony?

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In attendance at the Yad Vashem ceremony are PM Netanyahu, President Herzog and Holocaust survivors. This year's commemorative events center around the theme of '80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany'

Holocaust memorial ceremony held at Yad Vashem

National wreath-laying ceremony honoring Holocaust martyrs and heroes kicks off at Yad Vashem.

Who are the Holocaust survivors being honored at Yad Vashem's ceremony?

They will be joined by Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan, who will light the Memorial Torch, while six different Holocaust survivors who will light six separate torches.

Millions of Israelis watched the Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration live. Political rivals, military leaders and intelligence chiefs sat next to each other in the audience. On the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, Czech-born Eva Erbenová was one of the speakers at the traditional memorial service at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem. She was born in Děčín, was the only survivor of the Holocaust in her family, and left Czechoslovaki…

I stand here today, a member of the Yad Vashem Council, the grandson of a woman, Tsharnea, whose name is deeply engraved in my soul. She is not only my grandmother; she was a relic from the fire of hell, a living testimony to a horror that has no words. I do not speak as a historian, but as Tsharnea’s granddaughter, who carries in my heart not only her story, but also the shudder that passes through me every time I recall her quiet gaze, a gaze …