News in photos: Remembering the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust

Israeli relatives of Holocaust victims lay a wreath during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on April 24, 2017. Israelis stood silent and sirens rang out for two minutes as the country held its annual remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. / AFP PHOTO / GIL COHEN-MAGEN
Israeli relatives of Holocaust victims lay a wreath during a ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on April 24, 2017.
Israelis stood silent and sirens rang out for two minutes as the country held its annual remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. / AFP PHOTO / GIL COHEN-MAGEN

 

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (R) and German ambassador to Israel, Clemens von Goetze, lay a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance, where the names of major death and concentration camps are written, during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum commemorating the six million Jews killed by Nazis during World War II, in Jerusalem on April 24, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (R) and German ambassador to Israel, Clemens von Goetze, lay a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance, where the names of major death and concentration camps are written, during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum commemorating the six million Jews killed by Nazis during World War II, in Jerusalem on April 24, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON