March of Life Held in Kaliningrad Honoring 7,000 Kedoshim
Despite freezing temperatures, members of the Jewish community in Kaliningrad joined local Rabbonim, Shluchim, officials, and youth in the annual March of Life, walking the 10-kilometer route once used to march prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp to their deaths in January 1945 • Read More, Photos
Despite the freezing weather, the city of Kaliningrad hosted the traditional March of Life, held in memory of the 7,000 Kedoshim who were murdered along the shores of the Baltic Sea in the final months of World War II. Large numbers of Jews participated in the march, walking a 10-kilometer route, the very path along which prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp were forced to march to their deaths in January 1945.
At the head of the procession marched the city’s rabbi, Rabbi Dovid Shvedik, together with the Rebbe’s shliach, Rabbi Avraham Baruch Deitsch. They were joined by ambassadors, government representatives, and members of the younger generation, all standing united despite the bitter cold to affirm the pledge: “Never Again.”
Credit: Mevaser Tov.
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actually it was commemoration of death march from SUB camp of Stutthof (located on outskirts of Konnisberg)
Stutthof is located this days in Poland, it’s not possible to make a commentation walk from Russia to Poland because of political situation
in 1945 it was much much colder