Survivors of the Holocaust and Oct. 7 embrace at Auschwitz, marking annual March of the Living - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Polish and Israeli Presidents Lead March of the Living at Auschwitz

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.

March of the Living ceremony marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz

Thousands have marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland in an annual ceremony which this year marks 80 years since the camp's liberation. Among those marching were Holocaust survivors, calling for the world to remember the Holocaust as a lesson for humanity.

Survivors of the Holocaust and Oct. 7 embrace at Auschwitz, marking annual March of the Living - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

OŚWIĘCIM, Poland — At Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living, Maggie Megidish and her daughter, released hostage Ori, stood among a delegation of survivors of both the Holocaust and Oct. 7. The visit stirred memories of their own ordeal. When a Holocaust survivor spoke of the hunger she endured in the camp, Maggie said was transported back to the weeks she barely ate, tormented by thoughts of her daughter in captivity. “With every bite, or…

'There is no difference between Hamas and the Nazis, the evil is the same'

Nelly Prezma, a 99-year-old Holocaust survivor from Kibbutz Dorot, shared her harrowing story of surviving both Auschwitz and the October 7 Hamas massacre

Former Gaza Hostages Join Holocaust Survivors for March of the Living at Auschwitz - The Media Line

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Survivor lights torch, prays for hostages at Yad Vashem

Before kindling the flame, Fartouk offered a heartfelt prayer: “May all the hostages come home soon. Amen.” By Joshua Marks, JNS Holocaust survivor Gad Fartouk, 93, lit one of six memorial torches at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Wednesday night during Israel’s official state ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day. Held on the eve of Yom HaShoah, the event honored the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and resonated deeply this year as …