March of the Living (1988) – Auschwitz

Fact of the Polish figure „Rightous Among the Nations”

Part of the „The Holocaust” topic

The International March of the Living (Marsz Żywych) is an annual educational program that brings students from over 50 countries to Poland, to the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The main event is a 3-kilometer march leading from Auschwitz to Birkenau, held on Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed according to the Jewish calendar (Yom HaShoah). The first March of the Living was organized in 1988 by Israeli politician Abraham Hirschson, educator Dr. Shmuel Rosenman and attorney Baruch Adler, the child of a Holocaust survivor. Not only students take part in the event, but also survivors, educators, world leaders, and members of many different faiths. The March of the Living established 13 main goals, including commemorating the Jews who perished in the Shoah, paying tribute to the survivors, recognizing and learning from acts of altruism, and ensuring that such discrimination never happen again.