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Thursday, January 15, 2026
Cyclist to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with 1,000-km bike ride spelling ‘Never Again’
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Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Czech cyclist is embarking today on a 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) bike ride through Poland that will spell the phrase “Never again” on the trail map.
The cyclist, Lukáš Klement, will begin the ride in front of the infamous Gate of Death at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The entrance to the camp bears the slogan “Arbeit macht frei,” German for “Work makes one free.”
The ride, organized in cooperation with Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue organization, is expected to take some 50 hours. Klement invites the public to join him for the first kilometer of the ride, which will start at 3 p.m. local time today.
“After the attack in Sydney and just before Holocaust Remembrance Day, this is my answer to the terrorists: a cross-border, cross-cultural project that connects people regardless of race, gender, or religion,” Klement says.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held every year on January 27, the day Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
The slogan “Never again” was used by liberated prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp to denounce fascism, and has become a call to internalize the lessons of the Holocaust.
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