AKIPRESS.COM - Ceremonies marking Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day begins Monday at 10 A.M. with a siren that will sound for two minutes, during which Israelis all over the country will stand in silence, the Israeli news agency reported Monday.

Immediately afterward, there will be a wreath-laying ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial at Warsaw Ghetto Square, to be attended by President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, MKs, Supreme Court justices, Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and other officials, along with representatives of survivors and fighters organizations and delegations from Israel and abroad.

At 10:30 A.M. the “Every Person Has a Name” ceremony will begin at Yad Vashem, during which the names of Holocaust victims will be read by members of the general public at the Hall of Remembrance. Starting at 11 A.M., names of Holocaust victims will also be read at the Knesset, under the auspices of Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein. The main memorial ceremony will begin at 1 P.M. at the Hall of Remembrance.

The central closing ceremony will take place at 7:45 P.M. at the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum on Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot. Speakers this year will include Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Gantz. Six memorial torches will be lit by Holocaust survivors and their families.

One of the torches will be lit by the daughter and granddaughter of Chavka Folman Raban, one of the legendary smugglers of the Warsaw Ghetto, who died earlier this year. Other torches will be lit by partisan Litman Mor; survivors Hava and Yosef Lustig, among the founders of the Memorial Museum of Hungarian Speaking Jewry in Safed; Yitzhak Livnat, a survivor of Birkenau; Yosef Ben Porat, a survivor of the Glass House of Budapest, a noted educator and founder of Kibbutz Gaaton; and Prof. Yanina Altman, a survivor of the Yanovska concentration camp, an author, chemist and social activist.