Nearly 8,000 people, mostly Jewish teenagers, took part Thursday in the 17th annual March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau, in southern Poland, on Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Memorial Day.

Nearly 8,000 people, mostly Jewish teenagers, took part Thursday in the 17th annual March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau, in southern Poland, on Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Memorial Day.