The event, taking place on April 24 at the site of the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp, will also be attended by Israeli First Lady Michal Herzog and Merrill Eisenhower, great-grandson of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The late general served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II before becoming the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
Other expected participants include former Chief Rabbi of Israel Meir Lau, a child survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp who personally met Gen. Eisenhower upon the camp's liberation.
They will be joined by around 40 Holocaust survivors, several thousand young Jews from Israel and other countries, and a large group of Poles.
This year's March of the Living will be one of the largest gatherings of Holocaust survivors at Auschwitz in recent history, according to organisers, with 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation and the end of World War II.
Launched in 1988, the March of the Living is an international educational project that commemorates Holocaust victims and coincides with Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah.
In 2005, on the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, the event attracted 20,000 participants, including official delegations from nearly 50 countries.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau camp operated in German-occupied southern Poland from May 1940 to January 1945. It was the largest of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps during World War II.
More than 1.1 million people perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau, most of them European Jews, along with Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs and others.
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