🔴 Surrounded by family, Holocaust survivor Ruth Herson places her hands on a marker for the Stutthof concentration camp in German-occupied Poland at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on Thursday. 🔴 Flowers are placed on a marker for the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Nazi Germany in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. 🔴 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his wife Gilat attend the ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem. Sirens blared across Israel early Thursday to mark Yom HaShoah – Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day – as the country came to a standstill in an annual ritual honoring the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. People halted where they were walking, and drivers stopped their cars to get out of the vehicles as people bowed their heads in memory of the victims of the genocide. Ceremonies were planned throughout the day at Israel's national Holocaust memorial, parliament and elsewhere. About 165,000 survivors live in Israel, a dwindling population that is widely honored but struggling with poverty. 📸 Maya Alleruzzo, Amir Cohen, @apnews #yomhashoah #holocaustremembranceday