Daniel Weiss, a survivor of the massacre in Kibbutz Be'eri, who lost both his parents in the October 7th Massacre, performed the song "Shir L'Maalot - A Song for Ascents" at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp at the conclusion of the March of the Living.
He was accompanied on the violin by Agam Berger, who was abducted from the Nahal Oz base and was returned to Israel after 482 days in Hamas captivity. Berger used a 130-year-old violin that survived the Holocaust.
The ceremony was cut short due to inclement weather. Following Weiss and Berger's performance, Holocaust survivor Sara Weinstein took the stage and performed the Yiddish song Oyfn Pripetshik in a duet with the Cantor of the IDF, Shai Abramson.