“We are becoming that legacy, we’re becoming that memory and it’s becoming our responsibility, our obligation to carry that memory on,” said a Conservative rabbi from Charleston
Against the twin backdrops of Israel at war and rising Jew-hatred around the world, some 7,000 people from around the world marked Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, by marching the two miles between the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Poland.
Known as the International March of the Living, the annual event is designed to create a new generation of witnesses to the murder of 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazis. The task is taking greater importance as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles.
“Our job in being here in Poland, and standing in Auschwitz and Birkenau and all these other places, is to be part of the next generation of witnesses,” Evan Ravski, rabbi of Synagogue Emanu-El, a Conservative synagogue in Charleston, S.C., told JNS before joining the march.
