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Thursday, April 28, 2022
WATCH: March of the Living under way in Poland with 8 survivors leading 2,500 participants
Yaakov Schwartz is The Times of Israel's deputy Jewish World editor
OSWIECIM, Poland – Led by eight Holocaust survivors and Polish President Andrzej Duda, the 2022 March of the Living sets out on the 3.2 kilometer (two-mile) trek from Auschwitz to Birkenau.
This year’s march takes place under the shadow of war in neighboring Ukraine, and a number of Ukrainian refugees are among the 2,500 Jewish and non-Jewish participants gathered to commemorate the 6 million Jewish Holocaust victims on Yom Hashoah, or Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The march resumes with a smaller footprint after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Participants in past years have numbered in the tens of thousands.
For the first time in its three-decade history, the march also includes an official delegation from the United Arab Emirates.
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