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Yomiuri Shimbun
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Polish and Israeli Presidents Lead March of the Living at Auschwitz
The Associated Press Poland's President Andrzej Duda, right, and his Israel's counterpart Isaac Herzog arrive at the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau to attend the 'March of the Living', the annual Holocaust remembrance event in memory of the six million Holocaust victims in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, April 24, 2025. OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The Polish and Israeli presidents joined thousands of Israeli youth and others in an annual march Thursday at the former Auschwitz death camp on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day. The group included Holocaust survivors and former Israeli hostages who were captured by Hamas and held in the Gaza Strip, organizers said. Every year young Israelis, many with their national flag around their shoulders, are among those making the March of the Living to remember the victims of the Holocaust. It is part of a larger educational effort to instill in them an appreciation for Israel, a haven for Jews after the genocide in Europe during World War II. The march's traditional 3-kilometer (2-mile) route leads from Auschwitz's infamous 'Arbeit macht frei' (works sets you free) gate to Birkenau, a site with the ruins of crematoria where Jews and others were murdered. Polish President Andrzej Duda and his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, spoke to reporters ahead of the march, describing their presence as part of an effort to stand against antisemitism. The Nazi German forces ran the camp in occupied Poland during World War II. They killed some 1.1 people there, the vast majority of them Jews from across Europe, but also Poles, Roma and others. The camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945. The 80th anniversary was marked at the site earlier this year.
Deccan Herald
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Deccan Herald
April 25, 2025: Best photos from around the world
People wait in a queue outside Vatican City, as Pope Francis lies in state in St. Peter's Basilica, in Rome, Italy April 24, 2025. Credit: Reuters Photo A woman walks near a barbed wire fence before the annual International "March of the Living" through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, to pay tribute to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 24, 2025. Credit: Reuters Photo Coco Gauff of the U.S. celebrates winning her round of 64 match against Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska. People hold a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to the victims of terrorist attack in J&K's Pahalgam, in Kolkata, Thursday, April 24, 2025. Credit: PTI Photo Border Security Force (BSF) personnel during the Beating Retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan, near Amritsar, Thursday, April 24, 2025. The Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday said it has "scaled down" the retreat ceremony held at Attari, Hussainiwala and Sadki along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab in the wake of the Pahalgam terrorist attack. Credit: PTI Photo Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Josh Hazlewood celebrates the wicket of Rajasthan Royals' Jofra Archer during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Rajasthan Royals, at M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru, Thursday. Credit: PTI Photo
Daily Mail
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Thousands of Israelis including freed Hamas hostages and Holocaust survivors join March of the Living through Auschwitz 80 years after Nazi death camp's liberation
Thousands of Israelis including freed Hamas hostages and Holocaust survivors have joined the March of the Living through Auschwitz 80 years after the Nazi death camp's liberation. The March of the Living follows a two-mile route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Every year young Israelis, many with their national flag around their shoulders, march to remember the victims of the Holocaust. Participants pay tribute to the millions of Jews who died there and call for an end to antisemitism and intolerance. 'In days when antisemitism is raising its ugly head, when there is hatred towards Israel and when cries rise for the destruction of Israel, we must stand strong and remind and promise the world: never again,' Israeli President Isaac Herzog said before the march. The participants, many draped in Israeli flags, passed through the notorious 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) gate at the entrance to the camp as the march began. Antisemitic incidents have increased along with protests against Israel in parts of Europe, North America and Australia since Israel launched its war on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza after Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. The participants, many draped in Israeli flags, passed through the notorious 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) gate at the entrance to the camp as the march began 'We both expressed our hope that the war taking place in the Gaza Strip, which was started by Hamas' attack on Israel, will be able to end, that the hostages who are still in Hamas hands will be able to return home,' Polish President Andrzej Duda, standing alongside Herzog, said. More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz, which Nazi Germany set up in occupied Poland during World War Two. More than three million of Poland's 3.2 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, accounting for about half of the Jews in Europe killed during the Holocaust. Between 1941 and 1945 Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically killed six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, along with gypsies, sexual minorities, disabled people and others singled out by Nazi genocidal ideology.
AsiaOne
24-04-2025
- Politics
- AsiaOne
Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz 80 years after camp's liberation, World News
OSWIECIM, Poland — Thousands of people marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp in Poland on Thursday (April 24) in an annual ceremony organisers said would be joined by 80 Holocaust survivors to mark the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation. The March of the Living follows a three-kilometre route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau as participants pay tribute to the millions of Jews who died and call for an end to antisemitism and intolerance. "In days when antisemitism is raising its ugly head, when there is hatred towards Israel and when cries rise for the destruction of Israel, we must stand strong and remind and promise the world: never again," Israeli President Isaac Herzog told a news conference before the march. The participants, many draped in Israeli flags, passed through the notorious "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) gate at the entrance to the camp as the march began. Antisemitic incidents have increased along with protests against Israel in parts of Europe, North America and Australia since Israel launched its war on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza after Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct 7, 2023. "We both expressed our hope that the war taking place in the Gaza Strip, which was started by Hamas' attack on Israel, will be able to end, that the hostages who are still in Hamas hands will be able to return home," Polish President Andrzej Duda, standing alongside Herzog, told the news conference. More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz, which Nazi Germany set up in occupied Poland during World War Two. More than three million of Poland's 3.2 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, accounting for about half of the Jews in Europe killed during the Holocaust. Between 1941 and 1945 Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically killed six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, along with gypsies, sexual minorities, disabled people and others singled out by Nazi genocidal ideology. [[nid:717169]]
Straits Times
24-04-2025
- Politics
- Straits Times
Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz 80 years after camp's liberation
A memory board is placed on a railway track during the annual International \"March of the Living\" at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, to pay tribute to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two, in Brzezinka, Poland, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel People react as they sit on the railway tracks during the annual International \"March of the Living\" at the former Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, to pay tribute to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two, in Brzezinka, Poland, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel A person holds pictures of hostages kidnapped during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, near the \"Arbeit macht frei\" (Work sets you free) gate, during the annual International \"March of the Living\" through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, to pay tribute to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Andrzej Duda pose for pictures with Holocaust survivors, on the day of the annual International \"March of the Living\" through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, to pay tribute to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel People hold a banner near the \"Arbeit macht frei\" (Work sets you free) gate, on the day of the annual International \"March of the Living\" through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, to pay tribute to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War Two, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel OSWIECIM, Poland - Thousands of people marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp in Poland on Thursday in an annual ceremony organisers said would be joined by 80 Holocaust survivors to mark the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation. The March of the Living follows a three-kilometre (1.86 mile) route to the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau as participants pay tribute to the millions of Jews who died and call for an end to antisemitism and intolerance. "In days when antisemitism is raising its ugly head, when there is hatred towards Israel and when cries rise for the destruction of Israel, we must stand strong and remind and promise the world: never again," Israeli President Isaac Herzog told a news conference before the march. The participants, many draped in Israeli flags, passed through the notorious "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) gate at the entrance to the camp as the march began. Antisemitic incidents have increased along with protests against Israel in parts of Europe, North America and Australia since Israel launched its war on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza after Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. "We both expressed our hope that the war taking place in the Gaza Strip, which was started by Hamas' attack on Israel, will be able to end, that the hostages who are still in Hamas hands will be able to return home," Polish President Andrzej Duda, standing alongside Herzog, told the news conference. More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz, which Nazi Germany set up in occupied Poland during World War Two. More than three million of Poland's 3.2 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, accounting for about half of the Jews in Europe killed during the Holocaust. Between 1941 and 1945 Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically killed six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, along with gypsies, sexual minorities, disabled people and others singled out by Nazi genocidal ideology. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
