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  • Kol Nidre in Auschwitz

    Posted on October 4, 2022

    Holocaust survivor Judy Weissenberg Cohen’s Story about Yom Kippur at Auschwitz in 1944 Practicing Judaism or celebrating any Jewish Holiday was totally forbidden by the Nazis. But in 1944, when I was in Auschwitz, one day, some of the older women in the barrack asked these two specific Kapos (high – ranking prisoners) for permission to do […]

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  • Marching to Ponary – Remembering the Lithuanian Jewish community

    Posted on September 30, 2022

    The Lithuanian government, the International Commission for the investigation of Nazi crimes in Lithuania, the Jewish community and the International March of the Living held the annual commemoration ceremony at Vilnius former Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, followed by a march in Vilnius and to the mass graves in Ponary   Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė:  […]

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  • Out of 185 orphans who were deported from the Lodz ghetto orphanage to Auschwitz just a handful survived. Arek Hersh was one of them.

    Posted on September 24, 2022

    In the memory of Arek’s friends, The International March of the Living is asking the world to join the campaign to preserve and save 8,000 children’s shoes that still remain in the Auschwitz museum today. Arek was born in 1928 in Sieradz, Poland. He was one of a family of five children, and has happy […]

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  • From SOUL to SOLE: Urgent preservation of the children’s shoes at Auschwitz

    Posted on September 24, 2022

    International March of the Living partners with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, the Auschwitz Memorial, and the Neishlos Foundation for a global campaign to preserve the shoes of children murdered in Auschwitz. More than 8,000 shoes stored at the camp found to be rapidly disintegrating with the passage of time. Holocaust survivor Arie Pinsker, who was a […]

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  • I will never forget the moment I found shoes in Auschwitz. We must preserve the children’s shoes.

    Posted on September 23, 2022

    Holocaust survivor Paula Lebovics asks the world to join the campaign to preserve and save 8,000 children’s shoes that still remain in Auschwitz By Monise Neumann “Toward the end of the war I found mismatched shoes in the camp. I was so proud of myself to find two felt boots. They were not a pair, […]

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  • “Auschwitz was the end of my family. Still today, when I close my eyes, I see the chimneys”.

    Posted on September 23, 2022

    Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger asks the world to join the campaign to preserve and save 8,000 children’s shoes that still remain in Auschwitz By Eli Rubenstein Nate Leipciger was born in Poland in 1928. He had one sister, Linka. In September 1939, the German army invaded Poland, and his city was declared “Judenrein”. Nate’s family […]

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  • “When I arrived in Auschwitz, I was entirely on my own.”

    Posted on September 22, 2022

    Holocaust survivor Sidonia Lax, A-14821, asks the world to join the campaign to preserve and save 8,000 children’s shoes that still remain in Auschwitz By Monise Neumann Sidonia Lax was born in Poland in 1927, the only child of Cyla and Isaac Lewin. When the Germans arrived in her town in 1941, Sidonia and her […]

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  • In memory of Edward Mosberg Z”L, Holocaust survivor, educator and philanthropist

    Posted on September 22, 2022

    Edward Mosberg and granddaughter lighting memorial torch in Auschwitz-Birkenau on Yom Hashoah during the 2016 March of the Living International March of the Living mourns the passing of Holocaust survivor, educator and philanthropist Edward Mosberg, Z”L. Mr. Mosberg dedicated his life to Holocaust education and was actively involved in passing the torch of Holocaust memory […]

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  • Holocaust survivor Renee Salt was born in Poland in 1929. She arrived at Auschwitz at the age of 15. These are her memories:

    Posted on September 18, 2022

    “I arrived at Auschwitz in cattle trucks, the doors were slammed shut and bolted and we were left without any food, water or air. The journey took some 24 hours. Dawn was just breaking when the train stopped. Immediately you could hear dogs barking. The Germans opened the doors and I saw an army of […]

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  • International March of the Living proudly announces the appointment of Revital Yakin Krakovsky as Deputy CEO

    Posted on September 15, 2022

    International March of the Living proudly announces the appointment of Revital Yakin Krakovsky as Deputy CEO. In addition to an MA in Political Communications from Tel Aviv University, BA in Islam and Middle Eastern Studies from Hebrew University and a Professional Diploma in Spokesmanship and Public Relations from Bar Ilan University, Revital brings to her […]

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