Ex-hostage Gadi Mozes says he’s drawing strength from taking part in March of the Living

By Jessica Steinberg

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24 April 2025, 4:03 pm 1 Edit

Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center

Freed hostage Gadi Mozes and his daughter Moran visit Auschwitz-Birkenau as part of the March of the Living on April 24, 2025. (Jessica Steinberg/The Times of Israel)

Released hostage Gadi Mozes and his daughter Moran walk into Auschwitz-Birkenau as part of the March of the Living.

“The Holocaust is a Holocaust and October 7 was a disaster,” says Mozes. “We were hit hard, as a family, as a society, as a place, physically and emotionally.”

Mozes says that being on the March of the Living with the other families gives a lot of strength.

“There are 59 hostages and 14 from our kibbutz,” he says. “And that is more important than anything else.”