The annual March of the Living commemoration for Holocaust victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps has been postponed due to worries over the new coronavirus.
The event, which was due to take place in April, has been held in Poland for 32 years and each year attracts thousands of people from about 40 countries, according to the organisers.
Holocaust survivors, VIPs and young people pass through the gate at the entrance to the Auschwitz camp before marching more than three kilometres (two miles) to the Birkenau camp, the main extermination site.
"After consulting with the relevant health bodies and officials, it is with a heavy heart that we are forced to announce the postponement of this year's March of the Living in Poland," Shmuel Rosenman, the organisation's world chair, said in a statement Sunday.
"Our primary concern is the health of the many participants and the Holocaust survivors who would be joining them."