• Kristallnacht Film Forum draws 1,000 to see ‘Defiant Requiem’

    Ivy Dash, chair of this year’s 14th annual Kristallnacht Film Forum, first went on the March of the Living in 1990 as a junior in high school. The trip had a deep impact on Dash’s life. Dash said: “The experience of traveling to Poland and Israel with Jewish teens from around the world helped shape […]

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  • Three Roads From Nuremberg

    Seventy years to the day after the start of the epoch-defining trials, three Jewish advocates stand above the rest: Jacob Robinson, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, and Raphael Lemkin By Michael R. Marrus Much of what we now understand as the Holocaust—the persecution of the German Jews in the 1930s, the evolution of systematic, European-wide mass murder […]

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  • How the Nuremberg Trial Bore Witness to the Nazis’ Worst Crimes

    On the 70th anniversary of the world’s most famous trial, the prosecutors’ wise approach still offers a lesson for us.  SS Major General Jürgen Stroop (center) watches housing blocks burn during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. This photo was part of the Stroop album submitted into evidence at the Nuremberg trial. United States […]

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  • Even Worse Than We Thought

      Thomas Mann believed that all good stories are slow stories. He was doubtless thinking of Wagner, his greatest literary influence—but also, naturally, of Thomas Mann. And in the best hands, slowness can feel the exact speed necessary for truthfulness. In less sure hands, it can produce a kind of maximalist minimalism: see Karl Ove […]

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  • Most Meaningful Moments from Liz Pearl

    Tears and Pride at Auschwitz Back in February at the MOL Shabbaton with the students I experienced my first meaningful chaperoning experience. Following a dynamic session about sharing family legacies, a lovely girl in my small group approached me feeling very distraught. She expressed her anxiety about publically sharing the testimony of her grandfather, a […]

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  • Germans Jail ‘Nazi Grandma’

    By: Jewish World News Ursula Haverbeck, 87, was sentenced to 10 months in jail and challenged a court to prove that Auschwitz was a death camp. An 87-year-old German woman dubbed the “Nazi grandma” was sentenced to 10 months in jail for Holocaust denial. Ursula Haverbeck, of the western German town of Vlotho, told a […]

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  • Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat announced as Honorary Chairman of the ‘Campaign for the Future’

    ANNOUNCEMENT New York, NY – Monday, November 16, 2015 – The International March of the Living, a leading institution in Holocaust education, announced that Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat has been appointed as Honorary Chairman of the ‘Campaign for the Future’. As a Special Advisor on Holocaust Issues, Eizenstat is committed to the mission of this annual program […]

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  • Eloquent Speech by Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella at the JFNA 2015 General Assembly in Washington DC.

    Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella, the first Jewish woman on Canada’s Supreme Court, who was born in a  German DP Camp in 1946, eloquently discusses the legacy of her Holocaust survivor parents, and how they affected her life and values, at the JFNA 2015 General Assembly in Washington DC. Justice Rosalie Abella will join […]

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  • Book Passes The Torch of Holocaust Memory

    Seventy years after the end of World War II and 25 years after March of the Living (MOL) began bringing Jewish high school students and survivors to European death camps, MOL is employing the latest in 21st-century technology to help tell the story of the Holocaust.MOL recently launched a handsome coffee table book titled Witness: […]

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  • March of The Living Exhibit is open to the visitors of Auschwitz Museum

    The International March of the Living Exhibit is now open to the visitors of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The Exhibit will be formally and officially included as part of the International Holocaust Memorial Day, on January 27, 2016. The Exhibit will remain open at the main entrance to the Museum until July 2016. The exhibit consists of 16 units, […]

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