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»March of the Living« 2018
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Every year around 10,000 Jews from all over the world commemorate the crimes of the Nazi regime with a memorial march.
The route from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest of the German extermination camps during the Nazi era, is around three kilometers long.
According to the organizers, a delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) now wants to take part in the international “March of the Living” in Poland at the end of April for the first time.
Two members of the UAE delegation would light one of the six torches commemorating the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust at the central commemoration, organizers said on Thursday.
The march and memorial event will therefore take place on April 28th.
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Ahmed Ubaid Al Mansuri is said to be the founder of the first Holocaust memorial gallery in the Arab and Islamic world.
His museum is in Dubai.
"The lessons of the past and the dangers of hatred and prejudice must be learned for the sake of humanity around the world," Al Mansuri said, according to the statement.
The new situation in the Middle East, which has contributed to the good friendships between Jews and Muslims, is a historic opportunity to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust together.
In September 2020, Israel signed agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The "Abraham Accords" were brokered by the United States under then-President Donald Trump.
The two oil-rich Gulf states promise each other economic advantages, but above all they are forging an alliance with Israel against their common archenemy Iran.
Morocco and Sudan also announced that they would normalize their relations with Israel.
Previously, only two Arab states, Egypt and Jordan, maintained diplomatic relations with Israel.
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