Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

UN ambassadors mark 80 years since liberation of Auschwitz

“The presence of ambassadors from around the world today is a powerful reminder that the victims’ memories live on,” stated Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.

March of the Living
Dozens of U.N. ambassadors from around the world, including Israeli envoy Danny Danon (fifth from left, center row) in Warsaw, Poland, as part of a March of the Living delegation marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, April 23, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Israeli mission to the United Nations in New York.

Dozens of U.N. ambassadors from around the world visited the Poland Museum in Warsaw on Tuesday as part of a March of the Living delegation marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The visit is part of what Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, described in a statement on Tuesday as the largest-ever delegation of ambassadors to join the March of the Living.

“Our journey begins here, in the very place where the fate of so many of our people was sealed,” he stated. “The presence of ambassadors from around the world today is a powerful reminder that the victims’ memories live on, that the world has not forgotten, and that the Jewish people stand strong and move forward with pride.”

The delegation included ambassadors from Latin America, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, including Argentina, Panama, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Nigeria and Ethiopia.

Vita Fellig is a writer in New York City.
“At a time when some would isolate Israeli academia, UCLA has chosen collaboration,” Eveline Shekhman of the American Jewish Medical Association told JNS.
“The juxtaposition of us being at the United Nations, and all those people walking out while literally their employees helped to perpetuate Oct. 7 was put in a certain frame,” Rabbi Steven Burg of Aish told JNS.
“When someone gets out of the ambulance and says, ‘May God punish Hamas,’ while I’m filming, the people around him turn their camera away,” he said.
Yechiel Leiter’s wounded son faces peril after undergoing brain surgery following a car-ramming near Modi’in.