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There is neither Greek or Jew

Benjamin Albalas, Greek Holocaust survivor, is a Jewish leader and one of the key pillars on the Greek Jewish community. Among his many titles, he is the Chair of the European March of the Living (EMOTL).   Born in Athens in 1937, Benjanim Albalas was a child at the Holocaust.  His family was managed to […]

International March of the Living commends historic UN resolution condemning Holocaust denial

“Passage of this historic resolution sends a clear message to the world that the Holocaust is history’s unforgettable fact” International March of the Living President Phyllis Greenberg Heideman and Chairman Dr. Shmuel Rosenman said today in Washington and Tel Aviv: “As we continue our efforts to educate the next generation on the history of the […]

Survivor Speaker Series with Gabriella Y. Karin

International March of the Living continuing survivor speaker series with Gabriella Y. Karin was held on Thursday, January 20, 2022. Click on the video player below to watch the program. Gabriella is a survivor of the Holocaust and has dedicated her life to Holocaust education as a docent and speaker worldwide. She has become an […]

The rise of antisemitism has been tied to rising tide of intolerance

By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Peter Kraus was born on 5 June 1942 in Budapest.  His parents, Imre and Clara, prior to the start of WWII, lived in formerly Hungarian town of Szabadka – which became the Yugoslavian town of Subotica when Europe was carved up by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.  […]

“I am deeply worried that in 100 years the Holocaust will be a blip in history”

By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Rosette Goldstein, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor from the United States, is alive today because, during World War II, a French farmer and his family allowed her to hide in their home. “Monsieur and Madame Martin and the girls were very good to me,” she said. “I was […]

“Seeing people wearing a yellow star today is terrible! I had to wear mine as a kid. It was an offensive symbol, that segregated us from society”.

Holocaust survivor Luis Opatowski Goldberg, in conversation with Alina Garber, March of the Living, Mexico Luis Opatowski Goldberg, was born in Brussels just a few months before the war began. Luis was hidden in a church and served as an altar boy. Later he was taken to the Stutthof labor camp. Luckily, he survived the […]

Werner Reich, a survivor of Mengele’s experiments and the death march in Auschwitz: “The Holocaust can happen again if we are not observant and if we don’t focus on humanity being taught to be ethical.”

Werner is a docent at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Werner Reich was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1927. In 1933, his father lost his job as an engineer due to anti-Jewish laws. The family emigrated to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, where he attended local […]

I am worried that in 50 or 100 years history will be re-written untruthfully.

Sally Wasserman, Canadian Holocaust survivor By Eli Rubinstein, Educational Director, International March of the Living Sally Wasserman was born in Poland in 1935. When she was eight years old, she was smuggled out of the Ghetto and hidden by two Polish Righteous Among the Nations, Eva and Mikolaj Turkin. Sally lost her entire immediate family […]

Without history, there will be no memory, and without memory, there will be no future.

Holocaust survivor Max Eisen discusses the future of Holocaust Memory By Eli Rubinstein, Educational Director, International March of the Living Max Eisen was born in March 1929 into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Slovakia. Eisen lived through two death marches before being liberated on May 6, 1945. Eisen attributes his survival, in part, to the heroism […]