Excitement and Promises at the First Walk in the Country to Honor the Victims of the Holocaust

A walk for life was celebrated for the first time in Argentina, the conversion of penitentiary processions between the Polish autumn of 1944 and april [1945[1945 between a concentration camp and an extermination camp, between Auschwitz and Birkenau. This three-kilometer walk meant a forced movement tens of thousands of people as an instrument for the annihilation of the Jews of Europe, already at the time of the death of the Nazi regime. They called each other the March of death.

While more than 17 thousand protesters of 52 the countries they joined Auschwitz with Birkenau in the porteño district of Palermo near 400 people They traveled a symbolic distance to honor the victims of the Holocaust.

The event called "Walk for their lives". His slogan was a statement of principles: "This 6,000,000 is not that a number"The protesters loaded a wooden sign bearing the particular story of a mbadacred Jew, with the aim of: remember the victims not as a figure but as a person who has his story, his life, his joys, his sorrows and his illusions.

As part of Holocaust and Heroism Day, chosen in commemoration of the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and reigned under the Hebrew calendar, the march began at nine o'clock in the morning, after the sound of the shofar, a liturgical instrument announcing the beginning of ceremonies and celebrations. Fifteen minutes later, the congregation arrived at Plaza de la Shoá, located on Avenida del Libertador and Avenida Mayor Bullrich.

There was music. Two young marchers sang The pianist of the Warsaw ghetto of Jorge Drexler e Enlightened, a song created by a student. There have been many young interventions in the organization and participation of students from four schools in the Jewish community. Michelle Cataife and Daniela Finkelstein, Two young organizers of Remember Us delivered an allusive speech: "All of us here today are part of the latest generation who have the privilege of listening to the survivors of the world. So we will be those who will have the legacy to continue With the memory, we have the obligation to keep alive the memory of what happened. Today, we march to promote the fight against indifference, against all forms of discrimination, for the construction of a better world and a better society."

Of the survivors who participated, Hélène Gutkowski and Clarita Suchecki They honored the tribute with their presence and their stoicism. Helen spoke of the lectern. She said that she was a hidden girl, separated from her parents for two and a half years, that she was able to recover them after the war and thanked the French families who rescued her. "But I want to talk about those who are not, the six million who died, the 90 people in my family that I did not know and who were victims of the Holocaust," he said. said in greeting the initiative: "It is a great emotion to see the success of this convocation, we are with our comrades parading at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is impossible not to feel something special to be in agreement by supporting them from here despite the distance in a march so difficult to execute."

The survivors were accompanied to the front row of the march by representatives of the embbadies of Poland, Israel and Austriafor Gustavo Sakkal, acting president of the AMIA, Alejandro Zuchowicki, Secretary General of DAIA, Ariel Schapira, Secretary of Museum of the Holocaust, and Pamela Malewicz, of the Under-Secretary for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism of the City of Buenos Aires.

Malewicz said: "Today, we walk through life in tribute to those who are not. the survivors, We walk with commitment and conviction in sign of respect and admiration. We call for continuing to walk, to continue to fight against all forms of discrimination, denial, trivialization and indifference. There is no excuse. The time has come, it is time to remember, to remember, to face the forgetfulness, to try to silence, to annihilate. It is time to pay attention and not to naturalize stigmatizing customs or practices, which are installed in society and lead to violent and discriminatory acts.

At the end of the ceremony, the survivors and officials lit six candles to symbolize the memory of the six million people who lost their lives in the hands of Nazism. Under the sun of Buenos Aires and in the middle of a busy square, the closing of the march was decreed. The curious who crossed the Avenues Del Libertador and Bullrich stopped to attend the ceremony. Daniela Nuddel, the walker who carried the poster with Wiesel's sentences, wrote to them: "We march against oblivion and sensitize those who believe that this fight is not theirs, because it is the indifference that caused it and not the hatred, but people who looked away. We are all survivors, whether we are of Jewish origin or not. It's something that has affected all of humanity, like any genocide. "