The Last Trial: A Great-Grandmother, Auschwitz, and the Arc of Justice

The New Yorker  Elizabeth Kolbert  Oskar Gröning, who has become known as “the bookkeeper from Auschwitz,” was born on June 10, 1921, in Nienburg, a town about thirty miles south of Bremen. His father, a textile worker, was a fierce German nationalist and a member of Der Stahlhelm (the Steel Helmet), a paramilitary group that […]

70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

On January 27, 2015 we commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi German concentraction and extermination camp Auschwitz. On this day the whole world was listening to the voices of Auschwitz. On this day we met at the authentic site of the former camp as the sign of our remembrance. The whole commemoration […]

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 years, the Holocaust Educational Trust, […]

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 his college admissions process. Not […]

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 antisemitism at a special conference […]

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 this great honor, for your […]

March of the Living in Israel, 2014

La Shoá contada a través de sombras (The Holocaust Told Through Shadows)

Lehakat Naguía of the Jewish Community of Uruguay (Kehilá) (2014 Yom Hashoah Program)

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 had about an hour to […]

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 me a moment to recall […]