March of the Living
On 24 April 2025, JEWNITED.LV led the first-ever Latvian delegation to Auschwitz.
On 24 April 2025, JEWNITED.LV led the first-ever Latvian delegation to the International March of the Living in Auschwitz — 40 participants walking together among 8,500 people from across the world.
The International March of the Living takes place each year on Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — walking the 3-kilometre route between Auschwitz and Birkenau that hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to march to their deaths. Today, thousands walk in the opposite direction: from death toward life. It is the largest annual Holocaust commemoration in the world.
Latvia's First Delegation
JEWNITED.LV organised, funded, and led the first delegation from Latvia in the march's history. Forty participants — representing the Latvian Jewish community and its supporters — walked shoulder to shoulder with marchers from Israel, the US, Germany, France, the UK, Argentina, and dozens more countries.
Walking with Survivors
The delegation marched alongside Holocaust survivors and survivors of October 7 — a moment of rare, profound continuity. Their presence was a living reminder of why memory matters, and why silence is never neutral.
An Evening of Memory in Riga
On 3 July 2025, JEWNITED.LV hosted a Riga evening of remembrance as a lead-up to the march — 106 participants gathered to reflect on historical continuity and the responsibility of the living generation.
Erasmus+ Partnership: Learning from the Past
In parallel with the march, JEWNITED.LV joined an international Erasmus+ youth exchange programme ("Learning from the Past for the European Future") — a multi-stage project with Latvia, Lithuania, and Germany, including visits to the Žanis Lipke Memorial and Riga Ghetto Museum.
- April 24, 2025
The March — Auschwitz–Birkenau, Poland
Latvia's first delegation of 40 participants walked the 3-kilometre route in solidarity with 8,500 people from around the world, including Holocaust survivors and survivors of October 7.
- July 3, 2025
Evening of Memory — Riga
106 participants gathered in Riga for a formal evening of reflection and solidarity ahead of the march season — strengthening the community's understanding of historical continuity from the Shoah to October 7.
- July–November 2025
Erasmus+ Programme
10 young JEWNITED.LV representatives participated in a three-country Erasmus+ project — with phases in Berlin (July), Latvia (August–September, hosting the Latvian stage), and Berlin again (November) — focused on Holocaust memory and European values.
- October 9, 2025
Remembrance Rally — Freedom Monument, Riga
400+ participants gathered at Riga's Freedom Monument on the second anniversary of October 7: candles, minutes of silence, prayers, speeches by community leaders, the Israeli Ambassador, members of parliament, and international speaker Loay Al-Shareef.
“It was more than a march. It was the feeling that you are not alone. Beside you stood not just your team, not just your country — beside you stood the whole world. People from dozens of nations, shoulder to shoulder, with one purpose: to remember, to honour, to pass the truth forward.”