Israel falls silent to honour victims of the Holocaust

ON ISRAEL’S annual Holocaust memorial day yesterday, a 78-year-old concentration camp survivor slowly read the names of dozens of relatives murdered in the Nazi death camps, pausing to choke back tears.

The country’s main Holocaust memorial is racing to document victims’ memories and Michal Beer — survivor of the Terezin concentration camp — is one of many crucial to that effort.

“Soon, I will no longer be around. We really are the last ones,” she said.