IGDCB Delegation Photo will be Included in UN Exhibition

‘When You Listen to a Witness, You Become a Witness” is the title of a unique photo exhibition that will open on January 28, the day after Holocaust Remembrance Day, at UN headquarters in New York. The photos were not taken in the Holocaust era but during the March of the Living, in which survivors participated alongside Jewish youths from around the world. The educational tours took them to death camps in Poland, such as Majdanek, Treblinka, Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as Jewish cultural centers that were destroyed. March of the Living chairman Shmuel Rosenman said that it is very significant that the exhibition is being held at the UN. Rosenman expressed his deep gratitude to Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, and the entire embassy staff for their outstanding contribution to the UN exhibition. Prosor, Rosenman and March of the Living vice-chairman Shlomo Grofman will all speak at the opening event. The exhibition will run for one month. The March of the Living is held every year to coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Thousands of Jewish youths from around the world, alongside Holocaust survivors, gather for a week in Poland to visit death camps and Jewish cultural sites that were destroyed. Afterward, they come to Israel for a week to experience Israel’s rebirth and to celebrate Israel’s Independence Day. The participation of blind Israelis and their guide dogs in the March of the Living is particularly symbolic and significant. The Nazis exterminated anyone with physical disabilities and used dogs to terrorize and murder their victims. Israelis marching proudly and confidently with their guide dogs, who offer them independence, self-confidence, and safe mobility constitute a powerful contrast to the historic events that took place in Poland almost 75 years ago.. One of the pictures that will be displayed at the exhibition shows the delegation from the Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind, which included six blind Israelis, their guide dogs, and other escorts and friends of the Center.