A ceremony of a delegation of IDF soldiers, headed by Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kohavi began on Monday afternoon at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi camp in Poland.

 

"Only the birch trees planted here remain witnesses to the horror that occurred here and the pit of hell that it opened. Some of the roots quickly covered up what the trees saw, others protected the dead. But the roots of the nation were not removed. The testimonies rose higher than the piles of shoes and the lessons learned higher than the piles of ashes," said Kohavi.