The vintage tram drove around the area of the former Warsaw Ghetto to remind residents of their onetime Jewish neighbours who were murdered by the Nazi Germans in extermination camps and ghettos during World War II.
At 6:00 p.m. local time, residents in the Polish capital were encouraged to light candles in the windows of their homes as a symbol of memory and solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust.
The main Warsaw commemorations of International Holocaust Remembrance Day took place in early hours of Monday at the city’s Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, attracting central and local government officials, diplomats and residents.
Wreaths were laid and an ecumenical prayer was said in memory of the victims.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005. It commemorates the day the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on January 27, 1945.
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