Holocaust Remembrance Day began Sunday night, in memory of the more than six million Jews who were massacred in the Nazi Holocaust of 1939-1945. On Monday, in Israel, a two-minute siren will sound at 10 a.m. at the start of a series of day-long ceremonies marking Holocaust Remembrance Day nationwide. Yad Vashem is continuing its quest to increase its records of the names of known Holocaust victims. At present, the names of only some three million victims are registered. The official state wreath-laying ceremony will take place just after the Monday-morning siren at the Warsaw Ghetto uprising memorial, in the
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