“I lift my eyes to the mountains, where the aid will come to me.” With these words from Psalm 121 he has headed the March of Los Vivos The 20 -year -old musician Daniel Weisssurvivor of the Kibutz Be’eri and whose parents were, in … Change, killed by the terrorists on October 7, 2023. Barefoot, walking from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Birkenau, has traveled the 2.3 kilometers that every year, for 37, they host the commemorative act.
On this occasion, it has had a very special participation: that of several hostages released by Hamas. Singing the Israeli national anthem ‘Hatikvá’, crossing the main door of Auschwitz, they have later traveled with thousands of participants the journey that 80 years ago was baptized as the path of death and that the people of Israel intend to turn into a symbol of hope.
The presidents of Israel, Isaac Herzogand from Poland, Andrzej Dudathey have stressed together, on the occasion of the anniversary, their mutual commitment to maintain the memory of the Holocaust survivors and the fight against anti -Semitism. Herzog has called “these days when anti -Semitism appears its ugly head, in which hatred towards Israel reborn and in which shouts that demand the destruction of our country” are raised, to remain firm and guarantee the world that the horrors of the Holocaust will not happen “never again.”
Doubt, on the other hand, he pointed out that the joint presence reflects the Polish-Jewish commitment of “walking together to the future, relying on the memory of the past” and has promised that the memory of the Holocaust will last as “warning to the world and as an expression of respect for those who were killed and who fell.”
After remembering the creation of Auschwitz-Birkenau as an extermination location, “mainly of the Jewish nation, where more than one million citizens of the Republic of Poland, including Poles, Jews and Gypsies,” were killed, both leaders have coincided in the urgency of not remaining silent before demonstrations of hate. “You should not remain silent before any manifestation of hatred between nations, or in the face of any manifestation of racial and ethnic hate,” he defended doubt, for whom, “if one remains silent, the final effect can be what took place here, what the Germans did during World War II”, when “guided by ethnic hatred and an excessive desire to destruction, they tried to erase the Jewish nation of humanity.”
The renewal of diplomatic representation between Poland and Israel, interrupted a few years ago, has been in doubt as a very important step that demonstrates how much we want to teach together future generations about the brotherhood between nations and about the fact that we want to create the future together. “
Until the last moment the Israeli prime minister would attend, Benjamin Netanyahuon which an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court of The Hague weighs. The Israeli Intelligence Service, Shin Bet, has deployed a huge security device, after public threats and the exhibition of anti -Semitic protest posters in Warsaw who asked for their arrest and extradition.
Finally, Herzog has flown to Poland in the “wings of Zion” with his wife, Michal Dukealready a dozen released hostages, who have joined the March to eighty survivors of the Holocaust. The older participant has been this year Bella Eizenman98 years. Another survivor of the holocaust, Tzili wenkertgrandmother of Omer Waggerwho recently returned from his captivity in Gaza, has also walked next to the rest.
Haim taibfounder and president of the Menomadin Foundation, together with Yaakov HagoelPresident of the World Zionist Organization, and the direction of hostages and missing people, under the renewed called “Never Again”, were also among the participants. Among the excautives was also the soldier Agam Bergerwho has walked with his grandfather Ahaman, survivor of the second generation holocaust, his mother Merav and his twin sister Bar.
Ori megidisha soldier rescued from Gazahas marched with his mother Margalit. Hagar Brodetz He has been accompanied by his sister Yarara, and Almog more Jan He has marched with his mother Orit. Other participants have been Chen Goldstein-Almog, Moran Stila Yaai, Years of mose With his daughter Moran and Keith Siegel With his daughter Ilan.
Eli sharabithat He survived captivity While his wife and daughters were killed on October 7, he has made the tour with his brother Sharon, in an effort to ensure the liberation of his brother Yossi sharabiwhose body is still in the hands of Hamas. “On behalf of humanity, in the name of the suffering of our people, I ask to recover my brother,” he said after the end of the act. In his opinion, “every glimpse of humanity disappears when people are despised as a trophy and when the right to life and the right to bury the dead themselves are ignored.”
