The State of Israel will pause Monday night in memory of the six million Jews who perished from 1933-1945,

as the country marks the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The central theme of this year's ceremony is Children in the Holocaust.

Some 1.5 million Jewish children were killed by the Nazis.

Approximately 250,000 Holocaust survivors are living in the country.

About one-third of them live in poverty, recent Israeli welfare reports have found,

prompting a recent landmark government accord to increase their state stipends.

In keeping with the theme of this year's commemoration, a new exhibition and material

about children killed in the Holocaustis accessible on Yad Vashem's Web site .

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