It’s Disrespectful for the Shoah’s Victims If All We Teach is Death

 Jewish News OnlineBy Scott Saunders, Founder and Chair of March of the Living UKHow do you understand the un-understandable, explain the inexplicable? Seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz, we continue to grapple with the lessons of the Holocaust and how we should approach Holocaust education for our children.In recent

Parent of MOTL Alumni Talks About Being the Mom of an IDF Soldier

(Names have been deleted at the request of the family) Following are the remarks delivered at a community rally in support of Israel. I’m the mother of a Lone Soldier. The bravest man I know. He’ll be celebrating his 21st birthday next week. Three years ago he was actively sabotaging

March of the Living Budapest

March of the Living Budapest 30,000+ marching to train station where 600 participants will board train (of the living) to Auschwitz commemorating the 70th anniversary of deportations to the death camps (and the Shoah of Hungarian Jewry), with Irwin Cotler MP. Earlier, MP Cotler chaired an international parliamentary panel on

President Obama quotes Pinchas Gutter, Holocaust survivor who participated in the March of the Living, at USC Shoah Foundation Dinner

Remarks by the President at USC Shoah Foundation Dinner Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel Los Angeles, California – May 7, 2014 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you so much. Please, please, everybody have a seat. Well, thank you, Steven, for your incredibly generous words, for

March of the Living teens experience Shabbat in Poland

This past weekend has been one of the most inspirational weekends I have ever experienced. On Friday night, we arrived at our hotel and immediately got ready for Shabbat. We lit candles and went to services that were very uplifting and energetic. After services and a mifgash (recollection) session, we

Making Amends

 Mosaic By Robert Eli RubinsteinA mysterious request leads the Canadian-born son of a Holocaust survivor back to the old country.“There’s someone here to see you.”“Who is it?”“Her name is Magda Zelenka,” replied my receptionist. “She says she has something important to discuss with you, but she doesn’t have an appointment.”It took

The IDF Remembers the Fallen and Protects the Living

“And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart…” (Deuteronomy 8:2) The “witnesses in uniform” delegations program sends hundreds of IDF officers each year

‘Train of the Living’ to Memorialize 70th Anniversary of Deportation of Hungarian Jews

The Jerusalem PostBy Daniel K. Eisenbud Hundreds of high school students to ride train from Budapest to Auschwitz to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.To mark the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation and murder of over 585,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II, hundreds of highschool students from across the globe will

UN Exhibit to Honor March of the Living

"When you listen to a witness, you become a witness"On Tuesday, January 28th 2014, in the Visitor Centre, Dag Hammarskjold Library Lower Level, the United Nations will begin hosting the International March of the LivingExhibit: When You Listen to a Witness, You Become a Witness. The opening event and reception

Young and Old Walk Hand in Hand: For 25 Years the March of the Living Has Striven to Bond High School Students with Holocaust Survivors

National Post Abigale Subhan When Holocaust survivor Anita Ekstein first visited the death camp that held her mother, she couldn’t stop shaking.She walked into the Belzec extermination camp in Poland to visit a newly opened memorial – and found her mother’s name, Ettel, etched into the wall. It was 2005, on Mother’s Day, more