B. Acknowledgements

The March of the Living had barely returned from Israel when a group of staff members from the CENTRAL AGENCY FOR JEWISH EDUCATION in Miami, headed by MILES P.BUNDER, sat down to evaluate the study guide which had been prepared for the March.

It was decided that a complete revision was needed and that every participant would receive his/her own copy directly in the mail. The focus of the new guide would be centered on the March program itself, rather than teach the Holocaust, Zionism and the birth of Israel. The Marchers would be urged to take courses on these subjects in their local community and to read books from a prepared reading list.

The project was launched and now, the first unit of this new "Study Guide" is in your hands. It is the product of countless hours and days of effort, which extended into weeks and months.

All of us involved in the March owe a deep sense of gratitude to the major editors and compilers of the March Study Guide: MILES P. BUNDER, DR. ALEXANDER (SANDY) ANDRON and SHARON HOROWITZ. Their commitment and total dedication was truly a "labor of love."

GENE GREENZWEIG played a key role in helping to focus and shape the Study Guide, challenging the editors to find a better way to express their ideas and make it more likely to be read and studied.

STEPHANIE HAUSER AND JILL TANDLICH were of significant help in doing the research on the unit on Israel.

HADASSAH KAPLAN and EDITH SIRULL spent hours at the computer, sometimes in tears themselves as they felt the impact of the readings.

RUTH EISENBERG created the design work for the entire Study Guide and interpreted all of the words and graphics into a creative, easily readable and eye-appealing finished product.

DR. WILLIAM SHULMAN, who participated in the 1990 March, did the final reading of the Study Guide and his insightful and critical eye helped to shape this final version.

A special thanks goes to the officers and board members of the CENTRAL AGENCY FOR JEWISH EDUCATION of Miami whose strong support for the March inspired the staff to produce this Guide.

These acknowledgements would be incomplete without an overwhelming "thank you" to the people who really made this possible: the Marchers. It was their inspiration, their motivation, and their incredible dynamism which showed the compilers the importance of preparing this guide, and helped to keep their candles lit into the wee hours of the morning when their own strength began to wane.

And lastly, to you, the new Marchers, this Study Guide is now dedicated. May you learn from it. May you learn from each other before, during and after the March.

And may you learn to love.

An Important Note:
In the Study Guide, you will find asterisks (*) in a number of places in the text and graphics. Please note these changes carefully. They reflect updated corrections based on new evidence and information provided by DR. WILLIAM SHULMAN, Director of the Holocaust Resource Center and Archives of Queensborough Community College, New York, to whom we are greatly indebted.