Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to join Holocaust survivors and some 7,000 Jewish youths from around the world in Thursday’s annual March of the Living in Poland. The march, to take place on Holocaust Remembrance Day, will go from Auschwitz to the nearby Birkenau death camp, where more than 1 million Jews went to their deaths in the Nazi gas chambers.
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