March of the Living

Participants in this year’s MARCH OF THE LIVING waved high an Israeli flag as they left Auschwitz.  March of the Living is an international program that brings Jewish teens and adults from all over the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day), to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex built during World War II, and then to Israel to observe Yom HaZikaron (Israel Memorial Day), and Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day). Begun as a program for teens that has now been expanded to include adults, the goal of the March of the Living is for Jews – especially young Jews — to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and to lead the Jewish people into the future vowing “Never Again.”