Enkindling torches, sounding sirens, laying wreaths, a somber Israel is conducting various activities to commemorate the terrible history of the Holocaust.   Upon a two-minute wail of sirens across the country on Tuesday morning, the Jewish state came to a standstill, with drivers descending their vehicles and pedestrians halting their steps to remember the six million Jews who perished at t More..he hands of the Nazis during World War II. Immediately after the alarm, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, together with representatives of Holocaust survivors, public figures, school children and delegations from across the nation, laid wreaths at the Warsaw Ghetto Square in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Jerusalem. The two leaders then joined ministers, lawmakers and Holocaust survivors in a traditional "Upon Every Person There Is a Name" occasion at the parliament, where a number of participants took the podium one by one and read out the names of Holocaust victims before a mournful audience, many with tears in their eyes. A similar ceremony also took place in parallel in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, where attendants recited the names of children murdered in the Holocaust, as the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day this year is themed "Children in the Holocaust." "Mommy, may I cry now?" asked a little girl upon liberation, as quoted in a statement from the Holocaust Remembrance Authority, which said that 1.5 million Jewish children were prevented from growing up and fulfilling their basic rights during the dark years. "We always see before us the famous picture of the frightened Jewish child raising his hands in front of the barrels of German rifles. But this child was only one out of a million and a half children, a million and a half pairs of frightened eyes," said premier Netanyahu on Monday night at a ceremony at Yad Vashem that marked the beginning of a day...