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Episode #731 of Hometown Heroes, airing April 29 – May 2, 2022, features memories from liberators of Nazi concentration camps, as well as excerpts from this week’s Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Center in Jerusalem.

Click here to watch the Holocaust Martyr’s & Heroes Opening Ceremony from Yad Vashem.

Before Israeli leaders Isaac Herzog and Naftali Bennett addressed the crowd in Jerusalem, six holocaust survivors served as “torchlighters,” one survivor for every one million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. One of those lighting the flame at Yad Vashem was Olga Kay, a native of Hungary who raised her family in the United States after World War II before moving to Israel.

Click here to watch Yad Vashem’s video with Torchlighter Olga Kay