Hatred of Jews and Israel is the same, chairman of the March of the Living says
OVER THE last 27 years, the March of the Living has brought together more than 200,000 participants to walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau. OVER THE last 27 years, the March of the Living has brought together more than 200,000 participants to walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Each year, these marchers commemorate more than a million people – the vast majority of them Jewish men, women, and children – who were murdered in the death camp. This year, the program will include 10,000 students and adults, Jews and non-Jews, from more than 40 countries. It will also commemorate the 70th anniversary to the end of the Second World War.
“Seventy years ago, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz,” says Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, who has served as chairman for the March of the Living since 1988. “But for most of this camp’s inmates, they were too late.”
Only a few thousand frail and starving prisoners were still alive, he says, calling Auschwitz-Birkenau the largest site of mass murder in the world. He adds that all across Europe, the same scene was repeated, with allied troops coming across scores of concentration camps filled with the few who had managed to survive the brutality of the Nazis.