Each year on Yom Hashoah, traffic comes to a halt and Israelis stop whatever they're doing to remember the Holocaust and the Six Million.

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.

"The main difference between the helplessness of the Jews during the Holocaust and the situation today is that we have a strong, sovereign state."