During his visit to Yad Vashem, Benedict XVI says Shoah victims ‘lost their lives, but they will never lose their names’; adding: the Church is working to ensure that hatred never reigns again. 

The German-born Benedict paid his respects to the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem. Benedict shook hands with six elderly survivors of the Holocaust and rekindled the memorial’s eternal flame during an emotional ceremony. [Amos Ben Gershom / GPO]  (video)