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Hundreds of people attended the traditional March of the Living on the Holocaust Memorial Day from a railway station to the memorial where 70,000 Jews were massacred during World War Two.
March of the Living honours Holocaust victims in Paneriai, Lithuania
© DELFI / Audrius Solominas

Under flying Lithuanian and Israeli flags, the rally included Jews living in Lithuania, people from Israel and a few hundred young people who formed a human David's Star in front of the Vilnius Town Hall before the march.

"If we're talking about Paneriai, it is a factory of death. The only

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