An estimated 10,000 people will soon take part in the March of the Living to mark the murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust.
During the event, which is held yearly, participants march from the Auschwitz concentration camp to the Birkenau extermination camp, where the Nazi gas chambers were housed during World War II.
This year’s march in Poland takes place amid rising anti-Semitism worldwide and organizers say the commemorations are meant to send a resounding rejection of Jew-hatred.
“We are here to say in a clear voice: ‘Never again.’ We march to remind the world of the horrors that occurred during the Holocaust and to lead a global movement to combat anti-Semitism in all its forms,” Shmuel Rosenman, the founder and co-chairman of March of the Living, says in a statement.
No senior Israeli government officials are taking part in this year’s march, though former chief rabbi Israel Lau and Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog will take part. Also attending are US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, among others.
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