Some 1400 children from 20 secondary schools here visited the “Scroll of Fire” Holocaust Memorial and the “Martyrs Forest,” both near Jerusalem, on Holocaust Memorial Day. The forest was planted by the Jewish National Fund and International B’nai B’rith in memory of the six million Holocaust victims.
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