As thousands start the March of the Living at the Auschwitz death camp, the chairman of the march, Shmuel Rosenman, tells participants that they are themselves becoming witnesses to the Holocaust.
“We are walking in the spirit of the profound words of Dr. Elie Wiesel, of blessed memory, who said: ‘When you listen to a witness, you become a witness,'” said Rosenman.
Youth take part in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland on 24, April 2017 (YOSSI ZELIGER/March of the Living)
“We are determined to fulfill this, to embed the memory of the Holocaust in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world,” he says.
Rosenman says that since the march’s inception in 1988, 250,000 people had taken part.
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