Shmuel Rosenman, former international chairman of March of the Living

The push for a Jewish state intensified after the Holocaust. Auschwitz, pictured, where about 70.000 people were killed.

The push for a Jewish state intensified after the Holocaust. Auschwitz, pictured, where about 70.000 people were killed. Source: Getty / Getty Images

Shmuel Rosenman, is the former international chairman of Mitzad Hachayim, March of the Living the Israeli youth trips to Poland for Holocaust education. A special interview in Hebrew for Yom Ha-Shoa


Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah, is in 2023 on 17 April.

Known as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration

The commemoration will also mark 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Our guest is Shmuel Rosenman, former international chairman of Mitzad Hachayim, March of the Living the Israeli youth trips to Poland for Holocaust education.
Young Jewish Israelis traditionally travel to Poland in the summer between 11th and 12th grade, touring former Nazi camps in order to learn about the Holocaust and memorialize those murdered. The trip has long been considered a rite of passage in Israeli education and, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, some 40,000 Israeli students participated each year.


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