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International March of the Living announces participation of official UAE Delegation and launches first Holocaust Education and Remembrance Chapter in the Gulf
They will light a memorial torch together at the official ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau as they join Holocaust survivors and all delegations on Thursday, April 28, 2022 .
H.E. Ahmed Obaid Al Mansoori is Founder of the first Holocaust Memorial Gallery in the Arabic and Islamic world as well as Founder of the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum. In addition, he is a former Member of the Federal National Council.
Eitan Neishlos , a third-generation descendant of a Holocaust survivor, the late Tamar Zisserman , has joined March of the Living as a strategic partner to lead a journey of remembrance and responsibility among members of the third generation. His commitment to this organization led to the creation of this important new relationship with the UAE.
The participation of H.E. Ahmed Obaid Al Mansoori at the March of the Living, and the appointment of Mr. Neishlos as the Founder and Ambassador of March of the Living in the Gulf states, comes after the significant progress in ties between Israel and the UAE and with respect for the development of the Jewish Community in the Gulf.
The International March of the Living annual event is held on
Israel's national Holocaust Remembrance Day to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and the Nazi's systematic annihilation of more than six million Jewish men, women, and children. The 32km March from Auschwitz 1 to Auschwitz-Birkenau will conclude with the traditional ceremony held on the remains of the Auschwitz-Birkenau crematoria and will feature former Israeli Chief Rabbi
Yisrael Meir Lau , Mayor of Jerusalem Moshe Lion and Holocaust survivors and delegates from 25 countries. Torches of Remembrance will be lit in memory of the six million Jewish women, children and men who needlessly perished.
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