‘We are still alive. We have a homeland. We have an independent state. We are very proud of what we have, what we have achieved,’ Rabbi Lau said.

Take down the walls, allow the pain to flow and experience the loss, educator Ari Abramowitz urges young Jews on Yom Hazikaron.

Central ceremonies are at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and in Poland with a march from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

A photo was taken of a girl holding an Israeli flag outside of the entrance to Auschwitz. Facebook flagged it as “insensitive” but has since apologized.

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, addressing this year’s March of the Living, urged Jewish youth not to forsake their heritage. Now Jews can come home to Israel, he said.

A photo was taken of a girl holding an Israeli flag outside of the entrance to Auschwitz. Facebook flagged it as "insensitive" but has since apologized.

A few days before Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, thousands of people joined the annual March of the Living event in Budapest, vowing "Never Again!"

The relationship between Poland and Israel is unusual in that it is not defined only by economic and military agreements, but also by cultural and personal ties.