article_snippet.sent: Commemorations began at sunset on Wednesday   and were to continue Thursday with Israeli leaders attending official ceremonies at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, parliament and elsewhere.
article_snippet.sent: Israelis pictured standing on Tel Aviv Tel Aviv seashore as Israelis observe the annual Holocaust Memorial .
article_snippet.sent: The annual memorial day commemorates the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War Two .
article_snippet.sent: President Reuven Rivlin (centre) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) mark Holocaust Remembrance Day in Jerusalem .
article_snippet.sent: Israel's President Reuven Rivlin (centre) pauses after laying a wreath during a ceremony marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem .
article_snippet.sent: Benjamin Netanyahu laying wreaths at the  Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony .
article_snippet.sent: Holocaust survivors and their relatives lay a wreath next to the names of concentration camps at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem .
article_snippet.sent: Israelis and soldiers attend a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day in the Martyr's forest near Moshav Kesalon, in central Israel .
article_snippet.sent: Soldiers at the Martyr's forest near Moshav Kesalon stand during one of Israel's most sombre occasions .
article_snippet.sent: Six hundred young people stopped for several minutes to form a Star of David on the City Hall Square in Vilnius during the Holocaust Remembrance Day .
article_snippet.sent: People gather around and look at a monument in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial complex in Jerusalem on the day that the liberation of Jews from the Nazi death camps was marked .
article_snippet.sent: Israeli soldiers stand at attention in front of the Yad Mordechay memorial, commemorating a battle between Israel and Egypt during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war as sirens wailed across Israel marking the Holocaust Remembrance Day .
article_snippet.sent: Rabbi Avraham Firer (chairman and founder of Ezra LeMarpeh, a non-profit organization established in 1979 that provides medical assistance to the needy) lights the main beacon at the Massuah Memorial ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day .
article_snippet.sent: Moshe Eshkenazi tells Israeli border police officers the story of Moshe Eshkenazi grandfather Moshe Pesach, rabbi of the Jewish community in Volos during World War Two who saved more than one thousand Jews, during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust remembrance day in the Martyr's forest . '
article_snippet.sent: People stand behind the main entrance of the Nayi concentration camp memorial in Dachau, Germany, Thursday, April 16 as Israel remembers those killed within.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, as Israel began marking the liberation of the Nazi death camps 70 years ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the occasion to keep up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu constant pressure against the emerging nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers.
highlights_snippet.sent: Commemorations began at sunset on Wednesday  to mark 70 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camps .
  