Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic lays a wreath of flowers during a ceremony in honor to the victims of Croatia's most brutal World War II death camp in Jasenovac, 23 April, 2017. The Jasenovac camp, often called 'Croatia's Auschwitz', was the most notorious camp run by the country's Nazi-allied Ustasha regime. (AFP/Getty Images)
WARSAW, Poland (AP)—Thousands of people from around the world, many of them young Israelis, have gathered at the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz to pay homage to the millions who perished in the Holocaust.
Many carried Israeli flags Monday as they joined the March of the Living, a somber memorial march of about three kilometers (two miles) from the original Auschwitz camp to Birkenau, a much larger death camp where Jews and Roma were murdered in gas chambers.
Many also carried little wooden plaques with messages to place along railway tracks that carried people to their deaths at the camp operated by Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.
The yearly march is also aimed at instilling a desire in Israeli youth to protect the Jewish state.
Seventy-year-old Eliezer pays tribute to family members deported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp next to a wagon used in Nazi Germany to transport Jews to the Nazi death camps on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, on April 23, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)
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