President Reuven Rivlin and Minister of Education Yoav Galant will participate in the ceremony at Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot.
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The closing ceremony of the traditional Holocaust Remembrance Day events, held at this time at the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum in Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, without an audience due to the corona's limitations.
During the ceremony, President Reuven Rivlin, Education Minister Yoav Galant, Israel Prize bride Miriam Peretz and other dignitaries will speak.
In addition to them, five Holocaust survivors and descendants of the Nazi murdered will carry beacons in memory of their relatives.
The first beacon will be lit by Naomi Kotzky, from Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, a survivor of the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto who was smuggled in a sack of potatoes, and later hid with a Christian doctor.
The second beacon will be lit by Dalia Gavish, a woman witness at the museum, "Sabrit" who traveled as a baby with her mother for surgery in Poland, and "stuck" there until the end of the war.
The third beacon will be lit by Hermina Lang from Yugoslavia, who was employed in a German arms factory and survived.
The fourth beacon will be lit by Gabriel Gross, a native of Czechoslovakia and later one of the founders of Kibbutz Baram, deported to Auschwitz, his father shot to death next to him while working in forced labor.
The fifth beacon will be lit by Judith Kirley, who witnessed the shooting of Jews in Budapest and their throwing into the Danube River.
And the sixth beacon will be lit by Marcel Kurtzman, the grandson of the rabbi and the ultra-Orthodox educator Alter-David Kurtzman, nicknamed "the ultra-Orthodox Janusz Korczak."
In addition to them, the film "Last Scion" will be screened during the ceremony, about Holocaust survivor fighters who were killed in the War of Independence without leaving a continuation of the family lineage, and the rally will be accompanied by singer Hanan Ben-Ari.
The "Yizkor" prayer will be recited by Malka Sofer, daughter of Sara and Yaakov Lite, one of the founders of Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot.
As every year, passages of letters written in the Holocaust by members of the youth movements will be read, and choirs from Asher and Acre will perform.
