Holocaust Remembrance Day

Marchers hold up Israeli flags as they arrive in the death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau to mark the annual Holocaust remembrance in Oswiecim, Poland, on Tuesday during the annual “March of the Living.” The event, which commemorates the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, was launched in 1988, drawing thousands of people from around the world, from Jewish youngsters to elderly Holocaust survivors. Organizers estimated that half of the 8,000 people who gathered this year were not Jewish. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Images)

Sept. 16, 2014 12:56 PM PT

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A youngster draped in a Polish flag on the perimeter of the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Participants from all over the world gathered for “March of the Living,” an annual Holocaust commemoration. (Jacek Bednarczyk / EPA)

It was an emotional day for participants in the “March of the Living” event in Poland commemorating the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP / Getty Images)

Names of Holocaust victims are recited in the Hall of Remembrances in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Tuesday, as Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day. On the floor are tiles in Hebrew and English that spell out the Nazi concentration camps. The Hall of Remembrances is considered a mass cemetery for the Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis. (Miriam Alster / EPA)

An Orthodox Jew visits Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and looks around the Hall of Names, which displays some 600 portraits of Jews who perished in the Holocaust of World War II, during Holocaust Remembrance Day. Some 230,000 survivors of the Holocaust live in Israel, 60,000 of those at or below the poverty line. (Abir Sultan / EPA)

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with President Shimon Peres during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. (Ammar Awad / EPA)

A young Jew walks along a railway during the annual “March of the Living” at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Alik Keplicz / Associated Press)