'We must remember each person as an individual who had a family, a profession and a community, to focus on the way they lived full lives, not just how they perished,' said the founder of the initiative.
The Jewish mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, was shot on Holocaust Remembrance Day and is undergoing emergency surgery to save his life.
On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, an Israeli man was assaulted in Berlin by a gang of Palestinian Arabs who had earlier asked him about his nationality.