Traffic came to halt as drivers left their vehicles to take part in Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s most solemn day.
Thousands of people have marched from the Auschwitz to Birkenau death camps in Poland to commemorate the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
Led by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, many of the marchers were draped in Israeli flags as they walked the 3km path between the death camps on Thursday.
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