Israeli soldiers pay tribute to the holocaust victims while an Israeli national flag is set half-mast in a live video during the annual ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vahsem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2014. Israel commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in an official ceremony held in Jerusalem on Sunday evening attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres along with holocaust survivors. From Sunday evening to Monday Israel will officially commemorate the six million Jews who were mass-murdered by Nazi Germany in the late 1930's and early 1940's during World War II. The annual ceremony on Sunday evening was held at the Yad Vahsem Holocaust memorial museum. (Xinhua/Li Rui) |