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Last update - 15:07 01/05/2008 IDF chief leads 10,000 young Jews in March of the Living at Auschwitz By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press Tags: Holocaust, Israel  Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi on Thursday led some 10,000 young Jews, Poles and Holocaust survivors in the March of the Living, an annual event held at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was the first time an IDF commander has led the international program for Jewish teens. Education Minister Yuli Tamir and Chelsea Football Club manager Avram Grant also participated in the event. Advertisement This year's march, the 17th, started with the blowing of the shofar, or ram's horn, at the iron gate - crowned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei, or Work Sets You Free - that leads into the former camp of Auschwitz. Traditionally, participants carry white-and-blue Israeli flags and are led by some camp survivors on their two-mile trek between Auschwitz and Birkenau, another area of the camp that is the site of wooden barracks and ruins of the gas chambers. The Kaddish - the Jewish prayer for the dead - will be said at a huge stone monument to the camp's victims at Birkenau. At least 1.1 million people, including Jews, Poles and Roma, were killed in the camp's gas chambers or from starvation, disease and forced labor. The camp was liberated in January 1945 by Soviet troops. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Clear, present danger Survey : 52% of youth believe Israel faces existential threat. Feeling guilty Europe's criticism of Israel is more than just anti-Semitism.   1.   Is this the same chief who commanded the SLA?? 15:17  |  Palestinian in UK 01/05/08   2.   Palestinian in UK; You have a very nasty mentality 15:37  |  Haham me Bat Yam 01/05/08

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