Holocaust Remembrance Day – in pictures

Second world war veterans wait for the start of a wreath-laying ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial museum in Jerusalem Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters

A woman holds flowers and Israel's flag at a 'march of the living' in Paneriai, near Vilnius. More than 90% of Lithuania's pre-war Jewish population were murdered during the Nazi occupation Photograph: Ints Kalnins/Reuters

A man's eyes fill with tears on a tram in Jerusalem as a siren sounds for two minutes, bringing all activity to a halt as the Holocaust is remembered Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA

Moldovans are seen through a Star of David as they wait to place flowers at the Holocaust remembrance memorial in Chisinau Photograph: John McConnico/AP

Visitors at Yad Vashem look out at the landscape in Jerusalem Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA

Pictures of Jews killed in the Holocaust at the Hall of Names in Yad Vashem Photograph: Nir Elias/Reuters

Mickey Dorsey of the 71st Infantry Division, who took part in the liberation of various camps during the second world war, speaks to 'march of the living' participants at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, southern Poland Photograph: Peter Andrews/Reuters

Israelis stand still next to their cars on a highway as the two-minute siren sounds Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP

A Holocaust survivor tells his story to Israeli border police officers during a ceremony in the martyr's forest near Moshav Kesalon in central Israel Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP

A man looks at portraits of Macedonian Jews who were killed in the Treblinka extermination camp, displayed in the Holocaust Memorial centre of the Jews of Macedonia in Skopje Photograph: Boris Grdanoski/AP

A Holocaust survivor lays flowers next to the names of concentration camps at Yad Vashem Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Second world war veterans attend a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AFP/Getty Images

Women prepare to lay flowers during a ceremony entitled 'unto every person there is a name" in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters