ISRAELI SOLDIERS LIGHT CANDLES AT YAD VASHEM AS HOLOCAUST DAY STARTS, 1998-04-22 (photo)

Israeli paratroopers light candles April 22 at the Yad Vashem memorial plaza as the ceremony marking Holocaust day starts. Israel remembers the Nazi Holocaust by honouring and making amends to survivors of the genocide who 50 years ago helped create the Jewish state. Six million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. Behind is an Israeli flag and, at right, a large frieze depicting the Jewish fighters who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto. Tomorrow the country will come to a complete stand still for two minutes when sirens wail in memory of those who died. REUTERS