The annual Holocaust remembrance event at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp took place on Monday, with protests by activists carrying Palestinian flags, confronting protesters and shouting.
Thousands of people attended the 36th March of the Living event on Monday. Usually it’s a silent march from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Birkenau was a German concentration camp built in occupied Poland during World War II and was a major site of the Holocaust.Among those detained at Auschwitz yesterday were German die welt broadsheet newspaper report55 Holocaust survivors, survivors of the October 7 Israeli massacre, and relatives of Hamas hostages.
Palestinian activists protested the march, shouting slogans and some marchers were confronted. March organizers said counter-demonstrators saw the event as a “perverse” opportunity to “express their hatred of Israel and the Jewish people.” They said this would serve as a “timely reminder of the importance of Holocaust education and remembrance.”
Oswiecim, Poland – 2024/05/06: Pro-Palestinian activists protest during March of the Living 2024. (Photo credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Oswiecim, Poland – 2024/05/06: Young people lead the March of the Living 2024 at the Auschwitz concentration camp gate. (Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images)
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate to celebrate the 36th anniversary of the International March for the Living marching from Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, May 6, 2024. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Protesting outside a death camp must be particularly abhorrent. As always, pro-terrorist groups rose to the challenge with a protest outside Auschwitz. #HolocaustDay pic.twitter.com/6903Y0g4n8
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) May 6, 2024
Omar Faris, an organizer of the counter-protest, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying: An end to war, an end to genocide. ”
of era of israel report Although loud, the counter-demonstration dwarfed the official event, with nine activists shouting at an estimated 8,000 participants. According to the paper, demonstrators accused Israel of inciting “another genocide” and shouted, “Aren’t you ashamed of what your government is doing?”
Pro-Palestinian protesters march from former Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Oświęcim, Poland, on May 6, 2024, during a demonstration to mark the 36th anniversary of the International March for the Living. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
OSWIECIM, POLAND – MAY 6: A group of participants in the March of the Living sit next to people sitting on the train tracks after entering Birkenau and marching from Auschwitz during the 26th March of the Living on May 6, 2024. Say Afternoon Prayer (R), in Oświęcim, Poland. Fifty-five Holocaust survivors from around the world, including those who were victims of the October 7 attack on Israel, led this year’s International March for the Living on Yom Hashoah. Approximately 8 million people marched 3 kilometers from the prisoner of war camp Auschwitz to Birkenau in memory of the Holocaust victims of World War II. This year’s march also included a delegation of freed hostages, families of hostages, and relatives of those killed since October 7. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Oswiecim, Poland – May 6, 2024: A small group of pro-Palestinians demonstrate during the 36th March of the Living between Auschwitz and Birkenau on May 6, 2024 in Oswiecim, Poland. group. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld Getty Images)
(Photo by Omar Marquez/Getty Images)
(Photo by Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images)
