The March of Life is an initiative by Jobst and Charlotte Bittner and TOS Ministries from Tübingen, Germany. Together with descendants of German Wehrmacht soldiers and members of the SS and police force, they have organized memorial and reconciliation marches at sites of the Holocaust all over Europe. Since the beginning of this movement in 2007, marches were held in 25 nations and in more than 400 cities in cooperation with Christians from different churches and denominations, as well as from many Jewish communities. In 2011, the March of Life was honored by the Israeli Knesset for its special efforts on behalf of Holocaust survivors. The message of the March of Life stands for: Remembering (working through the past, giving survivors of the Holocaust a voice), Reconciliation (healing and restoration between descendants of the victims and perpetrators) and taking a stand for Israel and against modern anti-Semistism.
