Israel comes to solemn standstill to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, is marked worldwide to honor those who died during the Nazis' systematic killing of 6 million Jews, and millions of others, during World War II.

Nowhere does this annual day of remembrance have more significance or national scope than in Israel. The entire nation comes to a standstill for two minutes to remember the Jews killed

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As sirens rang in unison across the country at 10 a.m., cars stopped on highways and pedestrians halted in their tracks to mark the solemn national day.

This footage from Tel Aviv shows Israelis stopping their cars and bowing their heads in remembrance for two minutes before returning to their cars and continuing on with the day. Read more...

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