U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Holds Annual Remembrance Observance

WASHINGTON - MAY 01: Holocaust survivor Irene Katz (L) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) attend the Days of Remembrance Program in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda May 1, 2008 in Washington, DC. Organized by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the remembrance program was held on the day of the national commemoration of the holocaust, the attempt by Nazi Germany to extinguish European Jews before and during World War II. Katz was born in Dornheim, Germany and was deported with her mother to the Riga ghetto and to various labor camps. She was liberated in January 1945 in Poland by Soviet troops. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)