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Participants of the yearly March of the Living walk through the “Arbeit Macht Frei” (work sets you free) entrance gate in the former German Nazi Death Camp
Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, April 24, 2017. Jews from Israel and around the world marched the 3km route from Auschwitz to Birkenau com-
memorating the Holocaust victims.
(AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
Thousands at Auschwitz for Yearly Holocaust Memorial Event

VANESSA GERA German-occupied Poland. tracks. Also Monday, a new study complied with their pledg-
Associated Press Participants gathered un- The yearly march is also was released that looked es, others have done too
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — der and near the main aimed at instilling a desire at how far Eastern Euro- little.
Thousands of people from gate with the infamous sign in Israeli youth to protect pean countries have come The study faulted Poland
around the world, many of “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work the Jewish state, and many in restituting the property and Bosnia in particular for
them young Israelis, paid Will Set You Free). The blow- people carried Israeli flags. plundered and stolen from failing to enact any legisla-
homage Monday to the ing of a shofar, a ram’s horn The Germans originally set Jews during the war. tion to address the prob-
millions who perished in used for religious purposes, up Auschwitz as a con- The study looks at whether lem.
the Holocaust at the former was the signal for the large centration camp for Pol- ex-communist countries of Countries in Western Eu-
Nazi German death camp group to begin marching ish political prisoners. As Eastern Europe have com- rope began taking steps
of Auschwitz. in silence down the main World War II went on, the plied with a pledge made soon after the war to ad-
The event, the March of street of Oswiecim, past Germans expanded the in 2009, known as the Ter- dress the injustice of stolen
the Living, is a somber me- fields and along the his- complex, building gas ezin Declaration, to make property, but the takeover
morial march of about toric train tracks that once chambers and cremato- efforts to restitute the lost by communists across East-
three kilometers (two miles) brought people to their ria at Birkenau where Jews property. ern Europe complicated
from the original Auschwitz deaths at Birkenau. from across Europe, as well Carried out by the Europe- matters.
camp to Birkenau, a much Many carried little wooden as Roma, Soviet POWs and an Shoah Legacy Institute, In some cases, property
larger death camp where plaques with messages of others, were slain. Nearly the study found that while that was restituted early on
Jews and Roma were mur- remembrance that they 1.1 million people perished some Eastern European was then confiscated by
dered in gas chambers in placed on the railway there. states have “substantially” communist regimes.q