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Commemorative events honoring WWII victims held in Poland

Xinhua, April 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Poland held commemorations on Thursday of the 72nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as the annual event March of the Living which remembers victims of the Holocaust by marching down the path leading from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany in April 1943. Jews opposed the plan to transport the remaining Ghetto population to an extermination camp in Treblinka. However, the uprising was defeated by the German soldiers who liquidated the Ghetto on May 16.

On Thursday afternoon, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ceremony was held here under the Monument of the Common Martyrdom of Jews and Poles. The remembrance was marked by the Call of the Fallen, placing wreaths and lighting of candles. The monument is a tribute to the death of 7,000 Jews and Poles who were murdered in mass executions at the site in 1940-1943 during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.

On the same day, the 24th March of the Living event drew around 10,000 Poles and Jews who marched the three-km-long path from the old camp in Auschwitz I to Auschwitz II Birkenau.

The March of the Living is an annual educational program which brings students from all over the world to Poland to study the history of the Holocaust. The program was established 1988 and since then has taken place annually. Endit