3,000 march to remember victims of Auschwitz and Warsaw Ghetto

High school students joined Holocaust survivors from around the world yesterday to mourn Jews killed at the Auschwitz death camp and mark the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule 60 years ago. Israeli President Moshe Katzav and Aleksander Kwaśniewski, led 3,000 people in the "March of the Living" through Auschwitz's gate, bearing the infamous German inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free), to the nearby twin camp at Birkenau. "We must never ever forget the days when death reigned supreme here in the name of a demented ideology," Kwaśniewski said at the Birkenau site. "We stand united and steeled in our resolve to prevent a recurrence of the Holocaust." This year's memorial also marked the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which has become a symbol of Jewish resistance against rule by Nazi Germany. (Reuters; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5) J.K.