As Holocaust Survivors Disappear, 10,000 Youths, 12 European Education Ministers to Partake in March of the Living

News Staff/Jewish News International : Apr 24, 2017
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"The message of Holocaust remembrance must echo for generations to come. With the disappearance of survivors, the burden of memory lays with the coming generations. That is our main goal—to connect thousands of young people each year to the greatest tragedy of the Jewish People, and of Humanity as a whole, so that the lessons will not be forgotten and the acts not be repeated." -Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, the Director General of March of the Living.

[Breaking Israel News] How will we continue to instill the memory of the Holocaust in the younger generation, in a world without survivors? That will be the focus of a special gathering, initiated by March of the Living International and the Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Dr. Sonja Hammerschmid, to be held on the eve of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day, in Krakow. (Photo credit: March of the Living website/ via BIN)

Thousands of participants from all over the world will march on the tracks from Auschwitz to Birkenau, among them Israel's Supreme Court President Miriam Naor; Minister of Education Naftali Bennett; IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, and an honorary delegation of 75 Holocaust Survivors. Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and a Holocaust survivor himself, will lead the march this year, as he has done every year.

Ministers of Education from 12 European countries will convene for the first time in an unprecedented conference...

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