Holocaust victims honored on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Russian Jews cast shadows on the giant screen as they arrive to light candles during a ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on January 27, 2016. (AFP Photo/Vasily Maximov)

Former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is pictured through a barbed wire fence during ceremonies to mark the 69th anniversary of the liberation and commemorate the victims of the Holocaust in Birkenau January 27, 2014. The world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 to remember those who died during the Nazi organised genocide during World War Two that cost the lives of millions of Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals and opponents to Germany’s fascist regime and its collaborators. (REUTERS/Kacper Pempel)

A woman watches a film as it is screened at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, which commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II on January 27, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. The international Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked today around the globe. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitors look at a display of Nazi flags at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem January 25, 2013, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance day which will be marked on January 27. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

Israelis visit the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, which commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II on January 27, 2014 in Jerusalem, Israel. The international Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked today around the globe. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

A woman look at flowers placed on the concrete columns of the Holocaust memorial during the international Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin on January 27, 2016. (AFP Photo / Tobias Schwarz)

A group of visitors walk inside the Holocaust Memorial at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A man enters the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp through the gate with the phrase ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (work sets you free) at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers, (18 miles) north of Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A man sits behind the Holocaust memorial stones during the international Holocaust remembrance day in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, central Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Stones lay on steles marked with the names of the former Nazi concentration camps Majdanek (L) and Buchenwald at the roll call ground of the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, central Germany, on January 27, 2016. At the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivors of the Buchenwald camp and representatives of the regional government came together to lay a wreath. (AFP / Martin Schutt)

A picture taken on January 27, 2016 shows the last page of a decades-old handwritten plea from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for clemency for his role in the Holocaust, as the letter is exposed to the public from the archives of Israeli Presidents Office Legal Department during a ceremony marking 55 years since Eichmann’s trial at the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the presidential compound in Jerusalem. during International Holocaust Remembrance Day special event marking 55 years since the trial of Adolf Eichmann at the presidential compound in Jerusalem. In his request to the serving President of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eichmann wrote: “It is not true that I was personally of such a high rank as to be able to persecute, or that I myself was a persecutor in the pursuit of the Jews, in the face of such an abundant rule it is clear the judges in their ruling ignored the fact that I never served in such a high position as required to be involved independently in such decisive responsibilities. Nor did I give any order in my own name, but only ever acted by order of. The letter was signed and dated: “Adolf Eichmann Jerusalem, May 29, 1962.” (AFP Photo / Gali Tibbon)

This file photo taken on April 11, 1961 shows Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann standing in his bullet-proof dock during the first day of his trial in front of an Israeli court, 11 April 1961, in Jerusalem. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin is to make public previously unreleased documents including a handwritten request for clemency from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2016. Former Nazi SS leader, and one of the main organizers of the extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, was captured by Israeli Mossad agents in Argentina, indicted by Israeli court on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. He was sentenced to death 15 December 1961 and executed in 1962 in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo)

A man places a rose on a metal plaque during commemoration ceremonies on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, central Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

A Holocaust survivor places a lit candle at the Monument of the Victims during ceremonies to mark the 69th anniversary of the liberation and commemorate the victims of the Holocaust at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps January 27, 2014. The world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 to remember those who died during the Nazi organised genocide during World War Two that cost the lives of millions of Jews, Roma and Sinti, homosexuals and opponents to Germany’s fascist regime and its collaborators. (REUTERS / Kacper Pempel)

A foreign military personnel holds a flower as members of the the military wait in line to pay their respects, at a memorial service to the victims of the Holocaust at a monument in World War II Nazi concentration camp Sajmiste, in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. The international Holocaust remembrance day marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Israeli Ambassador to Hungary Ilan Mor lights a candle at the Victims’ Memorial Wall, during a commemoration marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. The remembrance day coincides with the 71st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)

Flowers are laid at the Auschwitz monument in the Wertheimpark in Amsterdam, on January 25, 2015, as part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) which will be held on January 27. (AFP Photo / Evert Elzinga)

Backdropped by the illuminated Chain Bridge, people light candles in front of the cast iron shoes at the Holocaust Memorial on the quay of the River Danube, during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

Candles burn in front of the cast iron shoes at the Holocaust Memorial on the quay of the River Danube, during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

Holocaust victims honored on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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