North America Participation

Approximately 2,500 Jewish high school students, from every religious and educational background and every part of North America will participate. This group will be accompanied by adults, including educators, survivors, medical professionals, political and community leaders.

World Wide Participation

The “March of the Living” will bring together Jewish teens from over 60 countries and regions around the world including Israel, USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Latin America, France, Germany, Belgium and Poland. You will have an opportunity to meet some of these teenagers. Together you will share moments of sadness and joy and create long-lasting bonds.

In Poland

You will visit the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Majdanek. You will also visit historic Jewish sites in WARSAW (the Ghetto Memorial, Mila 18, the Jewish Cemetery, the restored Nozyck Synagogue) CRACOW (the Jewish Quarter, the Ramah Synagogue) and LUBLIN (the famous Yeshiva). The highlight will be the “March of the Living.”

In Israel

During your stay in Israel you will take part in many special events organized specifically for participants of the March. On May 8, Israel’s 59th Independence
Day, all of the groups from around the world will join thousands of Israelis in this national celebration. You will visit a number of exciting locations and ancient sites, such as Jerusalem, Masada, Tel Aviv, the Golan Heights, the Galilee, the Negev and more.

“ How can one here today not be concerned with the assault that is being waged on Jewish memory? Some people deny that it occurred, others turn it around and say that we were guilty. Others still, in their viciousness, use a vocabulary that we use with regard to the killer, but they use it against Israel. ...How can there not be concern about anti-Semitism? We were convinced that anti Semitism perished here. Anti-Semitism did not perish. Its victims did.” —Elie Wiesel at the “March Ceremony

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