March of the Living Statement on March for Racial Justice being held on Yom Kippur

International March of the Living expresses its profound disappointment with the organizers of the March for Racial Justice, which is being planned for this Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Especially in light of recent events in Charlottesville, where prejudice and hatred against Jews, African Americans and

March of the Living Stands in Solidarity with Barcelona

The Officers, Board, Staff, Volunteers and Alumni of the International March of the Living around the globe send heartfelt prayers to those injured and condolences to the families of those killed Thursday in the horrific terror assault in Barcelona, Spain. We have once again witnessed terrorism rear its ugly head

MARCH OF THE LIVING CONDEMNS VIOLENCE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

The International March of the Living strongly condemns the vicious acts and words of antisemitism, Hitler-glorification and racism which took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. America, the Land of the Free, must not tolerate acts of hatred, intolerance and bigotry of any kind or nature. The International March of the Living

My Aunt Had a Dinner Party, and Then She Took Her Guests to Kill 180 Jews

Haaretz – One morning in April 2007 journalist Sacha Batthyany was approached by an elderly colleague at the Swiss daily where they both worked at the time. The colleague waved a newspaper clipping in front of him. It was an investigative report entitled, “The Hostess from Hell,” published by a German

Israeli Grandfather Who Thought Family Perished in Holocaust Discovers 500 New Relatives

Haaretz – Growing up in Israel, Alex Kafri had always assumed that aside from his parents and sister, he was alone in this world. His mother’s entire family, he knew for a fact, had been wiped out during the Holocaust. Although his father never discussed the family members left behind

Former Auschwitz guard, 96, found fit to serve prison sentence

Arutz Sheva – Prosecutors in the German state of Hanover say that a 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard is fit to serve a prison sentence. Oskar Groening was convicted and sentenced in July 2015 to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the

How the Nazis Deceived Dutch Jews Before Sending Them to the Death Camps

Haaretz– Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe’s largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland’s northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team uniforms,

Alumni Reflections: Andrea Bolender, HTMC, 2015

Growing up the “shadow of the Shoah” can never be described as a life unaffected. During my youth I often felt I carried the responsibility of making my father , sole survivor of his family, happy and proud of me. It was only much later in life that I realized

Remembrance Wall connects B’nai Mitzvah kids to Holocaust, Israel

Jewish Journal – Myrtle G. Sitowitz always has had a special place in her heart for Israel.  She moved from England to the Holy Land in the 1960s, performed in the theater in Tel Aviv and met her Bronx-born husband there before immigrating with him to Los Angeles. When it

Alumni Reflections: Valerie Greenfeld, USA, 2017

A SUITCASE OF PERSPECTIVE By Valerie Greenfeld April 29, 2017 To remember the heroes who resisted the Nazis and to mourn for those who were lost, I flew to Poland to walk with thousands of people from around the world from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Since 1988, when communism fell, thousands