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WATCH: 2019 March of the Living

Hosted by JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman, more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 countries and dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries from around the globe will participate in the 31st annual International March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

Thousands of young people from around the world walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the sites of former Nazi death camps, as part of the 2017 “March of the Living” program in Poland. Credit: Drew Jacobson via Facebook.
Thousands of young people from around the world walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the sites of former Nazi death camps, as part of the 2017 “March of the Living” program in Poland. Credit: Drew Jacobson via Facebook.
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