Ridgefield High School Senior Takes a Life Changing Journey to March of the Living

As I glanced up at the dark, stormy sky, there was only one thought going through my mind. Why? Why me? Why was I one of the lucky ones? Why were my people such a hated people? These were my thoughts as I walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Then

Teens Forever Changed by March of the Living

The 99 Broward County high school grade 11 and 12 students who returned May 16 from the 14-day March of the Living program met with their parents May 19 at the Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie to discuss their feelings and observations of the MOTL program. The phrase “I

BJE LA MOTL 2016 Travel Blog

Day 1 – We arrived! LA Arrives en masse! The Los Angeles delegation of the March of the Living arrived in Warsaw, safe and sound. After 5 flights out of LAX, connecting flights out of Chicago and New York, our delegation of 257 students, staff and survivors arrive in Warsaw’s

At March of the Living, learning how to live

Sophie Wortsman. 16. Toronto. Student. Benji Zoller. 18. Dallas. Student. Sam Peltz. 83. Florida and New York. Survivor. Jacob Kamaras. 30. Houston. Journalist. We all shared the same experience on May 5 — the 28th annual March of the Living, a 1.86-mile walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau as a tribute

‘No statute of limitations on genocide,’ Nuremberg anniversary confab reminds

 Why should the casual observer care about the seemingly obvious need to prosecute and convict Nazi war criminals, whether it be during the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s or similar proceedings in more recent years? “The Nuremberg trials only convicted the leaders and a relatively small number of people,” retired

UJS bus on March of the Living 2016

UJS supported 25 students to join March of the Living UK along with 250 other participants just a few weeks ago. March of the Living UK takes participants on a journey through centuries of Polish Jewry in order to understand life before, during and after the Holocaust. Bus C (the

Haunting: Israeli star inaugurates ‘Six Million Brothers’

Famed Israeli singer David D’Or on Thursday May 5th gave the first-ever public performance of a special song written by a fallen IDF soldier, at the March of the Living in Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yoram Dori, adviser to the March of the Living management, spoke to Arutz Sheva

Holocaust survivor revisits his nightmare to help young people understand what happened

Marcel Zielinski’s early childhood memories involve people clamouring to avoid incineration in the Nazi death camps of his native Poland during the Second World War. But for every person who escaped that horrible fate, he witnessed hundreds of others who were shot, beaten, hanged or gunned down in mass executions

Young Jews, aging survivors walk March of the Living to Birkenau

Organizers of the March of the Living said about 10,000 people attended Thursday’s event, including 150 Holocaust survivors and members of Israel’s parliament. Many draped themselves in Israeli flags. Participants walking the three kilometers (1.9 miles) from Auschwitz’s barracks knelt to pray and light candles on the railway tracks that

Alan Dershowitz: Europe’s old (and new) hells remind us of Israel’s importance

I just returned from a week-long journey through hell! It began with a visit to the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps in Poland, as a participant of the March of the Living, following a conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg laws and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg