The 19th March of the Living

The 19th March of the Living will be held this year on Sunday, April 11. On this day, several thousand young people, mostly Jews from around the world, will walk the so-called "Way of Death," the road from Auschwitz I to Auschwitz II-Birkenau.



The organizer of the March of the Living is the Israeli Ministry of Education together with the organization of the March of the Living International. Marches have been taking place since 1988, traditionally on the Day of Remembrance for Holocaust Victims (Hebrew Yom HaShoah), which in the Hebrew calendar falls on 27 day of the month Nisan. The first was attended by over 1.5 thousand Jews. The Marches have been held annually since 1996. The biggest so far took place in 2005 and had about 20 thousand participants, including delegations from nearly 50 countries. In total more than 120 thousand people have taken part in Marches of the Living.



Participants in the March commemorate those killed by the Nazis during World War II. It is also a manifestation of such values as tolerance, dignity and equality of all people and their right to live in peace.