Holocaust Remembrance Day 2009

Israelis stand outside their cars as a siren marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day sounds in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Frenetic Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes on Tuesday as air-raid sirens pierced the air in remembrance of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust.  (AP Photo).

Israelis stop their vehicles in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2009 as sirens sound across Israel for two minutes in memory of the Holocaust victims.
Israel began marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at sundown on April 20 with a ceremony at the national memorial to the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. (Getty Pictures).

Israelis hold a two-minute silence in Jerusalem as sirens sound across Israel in memory of the Holocaust victims on April 21, 2009. The wail of sirens brought Israel to a halt in solemn remembrance of six million Jews killed by the Nazis.  (Getty Images).

From left, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, French Father Patrick Desbois and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel, join in a prayer during a ceremony to mark Israel’s Holocaust day at the Place de la Nation, outside the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, April 20, 2009. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused
Israel of being the “most cruel and racist regime,” sparking a walkout by angry Western diplomats at a U.N. racism conference and protests from others.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) lays a wreath during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem April 21, 2009.  (Reuters Pictures).

Visitors watch the crematorium at the former concentration camp in Dachau near Munich April 21, 2009.
Israel on Tuesday marks the annual memorial day commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War Two. (Reuters Pictures).

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, center, is seen through glass as archive footage of Nazi propaganda is reflected at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Frenetic
Israel came to a standstill for two mournful minutes on Tuesday as air-raid sirens pierced the air in remembrance of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust. Israeli leaders vowed that there would not be a second Holocaust, their pledges ringing in the shadow of a U.N. conference against racism in
Geneva perceived as anti-Semitic. (AP Photo). 

Israeli soldiers attend a ceremony entitled “Unto Every Person There is a Name” in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem April 21, 2009.  (Reuters Pictures).

A female Israeli soldier reacts during a ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in
Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 21, 2009.  (AP Photo).