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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: April 16, 2007 |
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Around 8,000 people from around the world joined together for the annual March of the Living, a two-mile walk from Auschwitz to the Birkenau death camp, in remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust and to celebrate the existence of the Jewish state.
The sound of a shofar started the event, which coincided with Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
People came from all over the world to participate in the event, some draped in Israeli flags, as they began the march under Auschwitz's gates, which say "Arbeit Macht Frei," (Work Sets You Free).
Approximately 1.1 million Jews (along with Poles, Gypsies, political dissidents and others) were killed in the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps by starvation, disease, slave labor and the Nazi's gas chambers.
"We are very proud to come here to say 'never again,' and we feel that we have power now because of Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces. We came here to demonstrate our power," said 68-year-old retired IDF general Motti Barbagan, a fighter in Israel's past wars.
"We are all very proud to walk with our flags," said Israeli teenager Zohar Cohen, "Especially in this place in Poland, where the Germans tried to exterminate all Jews."
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