It is this same spirit of mutual education for peace that led us, Jews and Arabs, to make
a pilgrimage together to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland). Because this place of death
symbolizes the wish to destroy the humanity of human beings, to destroy the humanity
within human beings; because it arose from the negation of the unity of the human
race, we felt it was imperative to demonstrate that this crime concerns all individuals,
regardless of their origin. We encountered every kind of scepticism, every kind of
obstacle; yet I think I can say today that we successfully bore witness to the universal,
at the very place where the universal dignity of the human race was annihilated.