Presidents of Israel and Poland to join Auschwitz March of the Living today
The 12th annual "March of the Living" will take place today in Auschwitz, in
honor of Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust. For the first time, young
Jews from around the world will be accompanied by the presidents of Israel
and Poland, Ezer Weizman and Aleksander Kwasniewski, and Education Ministers
from both countries. Seven-hundred Polish youth will take part in the March
for the third time. However, another novelty will be that over 1,000
visitors, mostly from the U.S. and Canada, will participate in meetings with
Polish youth. Last year there were very few such meetings. "This change is a
result of our pressure and lengthy discussions with organizers, who admitted
that when they originally initiated the March, Poland did not interest
them," said Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, who until recently was the Prime
Minister's adviser on Polish-Jewish relations. (Rzeczpospolita, page A3)
T.J.
