At these very moments, for the first time in my life, I am walking through the gates of Auschwitz as part of the March of the Living. Alongside me walk Muslim leaders and imams from Pakistan, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, Somaliland, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. After we walked the route of the death march. Together, we swear that “Never Again.”

This event is not merely a historical gesture, it is living testimony that even from the greatest darkness, an alliance of peace can emerge.

Amin Drissi from Morocco, a public opinion leader in the Muslim world, traveled before his arrival here to the city of Salé in Morocco, to the grave of Rabbi Raphael Ankawa, one of the greatest sages of Morocco in the last century, and the first Chief Rabbi of Morocco. There, before his grave, he purchased six candles. Three of them he lit on his grave, and three additional........

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