In an emotional moment, US President Joe Biden knelt before two Holocaust survivors whilst on a visit to Yad Vashem.
At the ceremony, Biden rekindled the eternal flame, laying a wreath at the spot where the ashes of concentration camp victims are interred, while a choir sang the song ‘A Walk to Caesarea’ written by Hungarian Jewish WWII resistance fighter Hannah Szenes.
The president then got down on one knee to speak to Holocaust survivors Rena Quint and Dr Gita Cycowicz, urging them to stay seated as he approached.
Quint was born in 1935 in Poland. At the age of six, she was deported with her father to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where she pretended to be a boy in order to survive.
