A special media event called the 2020 Virtual March of the Living Ceremony will be aired to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the International March of the Living website reported.
Launched in 1988, the March of the Living is as an educational project that sees participants walking a three-kilometre route from Auschwitz's infamous “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work sets you free”) gate to the crematoria of the nearby Birkenau site.
Prominent politicians who have taken part in the March of the Living in the past include Polish and Israeli presidents and prime ministers.
Poles constitute the largest national group to be named Righteous Among the Nations by Israel for risking their lives to save Jews from the Nazi German Holocaust.
A total of 9,593 people have tested positive for the COVID-19 disease in Poland, with 380 deaths from the coronavirus so far, officials said on Monday afternoon.
(pk)