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“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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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‘Do not ever be complacent! Do not ever be apathetic or indifferent to emerging evil!’
‘Education of our Jewish heritage and history is the best weapon to counteract Holocaust trivialization and denial.’ By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Born to Jewish parents who operated a delicatessen in the heart of Bratislava (Slovakia), Gabriella Karin was just 11 when she and her family were forced into hiding to avoid […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israeli Holocaust survivors speak out against the growing trend of Holocaust trivialization and comparisons to Covid-19 measures
Dita Kraus, Vera Krieger, and Aliza Landau are participating in the #CantBeCompared campaign initiated by the International March of the Living and the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Dita Kraus: “It is impossible to compare the Holocaust to anything. The Holocaust was unique, nothing is like the industrial-scale extermination of people in gas chambers. Nothing compares […]
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“There are very few survivors left, and I want the world to know that there was a Holocaust”
Estelle Nadel, Holocaust survivor – in conversation with Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Polish-born Estelle Nadel was only five years old when World War II began. The war started immediately for her and all the three million Jews in the country. She still remembers wearing the yellow star and how the Gestapo ransacked […]
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Congratulations to Albert Bourla – Genesis Prize Laureate for 2022
International March of the Living congratulates Albert Bourla on being chosen as the Genesis Prize Laureate for 2022. The Genesis Prize is a global award that celebrates Jewish achievement and honors extraordinary individuals for their outstanding professional achievement, contribution to humanity, and commitment to Jewish values. The appointment of Albert Bourla, two years since the […]
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“There is Neither Greek Nor Jew”: The Heroic Duo Who Saved an Entire Island From the Holocaust
“There is Neither Greek Nor Jew”: The Heroic Duo Who Saved an Entire Island From the Holocaust A Reception in Honor of Loukas Karrer & Dimitrios Chrysostomos for International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 25th, 2022, at 11:00 AM ET / 6:00 PM Athens In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and in celebration of […]
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Liz Panitch appointed COO of the International March of the Living
We are pleased to announce Liz (Elizabeth) Panitch in her new role as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the International March of the Living. In this role Liz will oversee all operations, logistics and programming for the International March of the Living. Liz has been working with the International March of the Living since 2009. […]
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