Children with Special Needs in Israeli School Help Preserve Auschwitz Shoes

“Soul to Sole” Project initiated by International March of the Living, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and the Neishlos Foundation We are proud and excited to share that the students of the Rothman Kaduri School, an educational center for adolescents with autism in Israel, took an inspiring step in a unique effort

March of Remembrance Commemorates Tragic Deportation of Warsaw’s Jews 80 Years Ago

A special March of Remembrance (Marsz Pamięci) event was held this past weekend in memory of the Jews who were confined in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. The march commemorated the date of the first deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp which took

Survivor Spotlight: Hedy Bohm

Over the last three and a half decades, thousands of Holocaust survivors from around the world have joined the March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Remembrance Day. During this momentous journey, many of these survivors shared their stories with some 300000 participants – mostly students –

2023 March of the Living Highlights

The 35th Anniversary March of the Living took place on April 18, 2023 from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Remembrance Day. https://youtu.be/_It74eijjc8

A Small Blue Square with a Big Impact

Click on the video players below to view moving short Youtube videos videos presenting everyday instances of antisemitism, encouraging audiences to recognize hatred expressed toward Jews in order to stand up firmly against it. The videos were created by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism’s “Stand Up to Jewish Hate” campaign,

We Survived: Survivor Spotlight on Arek Hersh

“I survived the selection. I was saved from the gas chambers. Fate, luck, or both, kept me alive.” Arek Hersh, 95, Prisoner No. B7608, lives in Leeds, England “I was born in Sieradz, Poland in 1928. When the war broke out, we had to flee to Lodz. Shortly thereafter, I

The memory of the survivors will not be dimmed

The sand in the hourglass is running low. There are just a few grains left, the final bits of living memory, single candles flickering in the fading light. The number of Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the greatest atrocity in the history of humanity, is dwindling. Each and every one of

“We Survived” – Special International March of the Living Publication in honor of Holocaust Survivor Day

International March of the Living is proud to join organizations around the world commemorating Holocaust Survivor Day, taking place this year on June 4, 2023, a day recognizing and celebrating the lives of our courageous Holocaust Survivors. In honor of this significant commemoration, and in cooperation with Yedioth Ahronoth/Ynet, International

We Survived: Survivor Spotlight on Nate Leipciger

We Survived. The last of the survivors retrace their journeys of survival on the 2023 March of the Living in Poland. Prisoner Number 133628 Nate Leipciger, age 95, lives in Toronto Canada: “This is my bunk in Birkenau. This is my first time coming back here again. This time well

“It was just the prelude… Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.”

“It was just the prelude… Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too.” Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) These prophetic words, penned by German Jewish Writer Heinrich Heine in 1821, became a chilling reality during the Nazi regime between 1933-1945. On May 10, 1933, Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s Minister of