‘If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die’

  The Forger: Video As a teenager, Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help children flee the Nazis. He spent his life helping others escape atrocities around the world.   PARIS — It’s 1944, in occupied Paris. Four friends spend their days in a narrow room atop a

Dolls snatched from Jewish sisters during Holocaust preserved by three generations of French family

PARIS — On a bleak February day in 1944, a French gendarme snatched a pair of dolls from two Jewish sisters about to be deported to Auschwitz, and flung them to the ground. Denise and Micheline Levy were 10 and nine when they were bundled out of their school in

Irena Sendler: The Holocaust heroine who saved 2500 Jewish children from Nazi evil

A VIDEO paying tribute to an astonishing nurse who “declared war on Hitler” and saved more than 2,500 Jewish children from the grasp of the evil Nazi regime has gone viral. Irena Sendler, who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910, has been hailed as one of the Second World

French Holocaust survivor seeks honors for his Rosh Hashanah rescuers

Jacques Stuzalft teams up with local historian in bid to recognize French railway workers who saved dozens of children from Nazis on eve of Jewish New Year in 1942 JTA — For Jews all over the world, the High Holidays are a time for closure and new beginnings. Not for

95-Year-Old Auschwitz Paramedic Charged in 3,681 Murders

A 95-year-old former paramedic at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was charged in a German court on Monday with being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people in a trial that is likely to be one of Germany’s last linked to the Holocaust. Hubert Zafke worked as

From Warsaw Ghetto to the Alt-right: The Women Fighting Holocaust Denial

Rokhl Oyerbakh and Deborah Lipstadt disrupted the male-dominated study of the Shoah. The re-energized Holocaust denial on show this election season gives the two upcoming films about them a depressing relevance. In April 1946, a memorial was held in Warsaw marking the third anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The

New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

(JTA) — In 1940, as he was being transported to safety in the lower deck of a ship, the Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger asked Waitstill Sharp why the American Unitarian minister had bothered to rescue him from the Nazis. Sharp and his wife, Martha, had spent much of the previous two

Shimon Peres 1923-2016 ז״ל

The International March of the Living Board of Directors, Staff, Global Leadership and Alumni around the world deeply mourn the passing of our friend and fellow Marcher Shimon Peres ז״ל. May his memory be a blessing. “Nobody could have broken us. They hate us, they persecute us, they killed many of us, but

Video & Transcript: President Shimon Peres Message – 2016 March of the Living Latrun on Yom Ha’atsmaut

You already made the March of the Living. From the abyss of Jewish History, the Shoah, the lowest, most tragic point in our life, to the summit of Jewish achievements, the State of Israel. The lowest and highest. I know people say that Israel is a miracle. Israel is not

March of the Living on The Shtick with Renny Rychter

Renny Richter, Co-President of March of the Living, tells us about the amazing experience of traveling to Poland and Israel in a group, dedicated to the Memory of the Holocaust, commemorating Yom Hashoah in Poland, then Yom Hazikaron and celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut in Israel.