Alumni Reflection: Ben Shofet, Los Angeles, 2017

For two weeks, I alongside several other Beverly students took part in the 2017 March of the Living program (MOTL) with the Los Angeles Delegation. The trip was a total of two weeks. In the first week, as a group, we traveled to Warsaw, Krakow and Lublin, visiting numerous concentration camps,

Video Reflection by Amatzia Deutsch, Mexico, 2017

Who will tell survivors’ stories when they’re gone? by David Benson, BJE LA, 2015

In the spring of 2011, David Benson, found himself walking with his grandmother, Holocaust survivor Sidonia Lax, down the “black path” that once led to the crematorium at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. It was Lax’s fifth trip with the annual International March of the Living as a survivor,

Alumni Reflection, Juliana Bentel, South Africa, 2017

Poland is a sad city because the people living there every day have to wake up mindful of the past (the ones that acknowledge the past). They carry this heavy burden on their shoulders day by day. That cold day we visited a mass grave of children, women and men

Join a March while survivors can still share their experiences by Rabbi Gideon Sylvester, UK, 2017

Times of Israel – Imagine that your best friend is having a nightmare. He thrashes about in his sleep; crying and screaming hysterically. Naturally, you would wake him, comfort him and reassure him that everything will be alright. But when the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl faced this predicament, he resisted the temptation

Video Reflections from Martin Buber School, Argentina, 2017

Alumni Reflection: Catalina Eps, ORT Argentina, 2017

Since I was a child, They taught me about the holocaust, they told me what happened, but it was not the same studyng the history than to see by myself what really happened. I could feel what they suffered, and even reasoned that it could have been me, that it

Alumni Reflection: Anna Valkin, South Africa, 2017

In this lifetime, according to basic societal norms, we have a responsibility to acquire as much knowledge as we have access to, and in turn, use what we’ve learned to improve the quality of our lives, that of our community and, as much as possible, our whole planet. The potential

Alumni Reflection: Tamara Waizer, ORT Argentina, 2017

SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH TRANSLATION: El 24 de Abril del 2017 marché, Marché por la vida, Marché para no olvidar, Marché para transmitir, Marché por nuestro pasado y por su futuro, Marché como testigo de lo que SI pasó, Marché por los sueños robados, Marché por los 6 millones de

The Last Generation: Reflections on March of the Living by Dr. Tuvia Book, UK, 2017

Times of Israel – The feeling of exiting an ElAl plane in Poland is difficult describe. I felt like I was leaving a protective cocoon of “Israeliness.” Despite the warm spring weather I felt a chill as I stepped outside. This is the land of the murder of millions of