Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) will be officially inaugurated at 8:00 pm Wednesday night, in a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.

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The central theme for this year’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day is “The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life: Seventy Years Since the End of WWII,” according to Yad Vashem’s website. 

Planned speakers include Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin. 

Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, will kindle the Memorial Torch. Hana Meiri will speak on behalf of the survivors.

During the ceremony, Holocaust survivors will light six torches. The survivors are Avraham Harshalom, Dov Shimoni, Sara Weinstein, Ephraim Reichenberg, Eggi Lewysohn, and Shela Altaraz. 

The Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, will recite Psalms; the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, will recite Kaddish. El Maleh Rahamim, a Jewish prayer for the souls of the martyrs, will be recited by Lt. Col Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the IDF.

Other participants in the ceremony include singer Avraham Tal and the IDF Paratroopers’ Honor Guard.