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Tunisian Jews were enlisted into forced labour during the six-month Nazi occupation from November 1942 (photo credit: Yad Vashem).
Once a year in Israel, a piercing siren is sounded for two minutes. On every road, street and corner of the country, life is temporarily suspended. People stop in the middle of walking, driving or working, to stand in silence, and commemorate the suffering of the Holocaust in honour of Israel’s national day of memorial.