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Alumni Reflections: Angela Glaser, Southern Region, 2016
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Southern Region Year(s) attended: 2016 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? When we were in Majdanek I saw the box that all of the prisoners were put in before they were gassed and I stood […]
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Alumni Reflections: Elisa Behar Lemmer, South Florida, 1992
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? South Florida Year(s) attended: 1992 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? We were honored to have a Holocaust survivor, my friend’s grandfather, traveling with us on our bus. We had arrived in Birkenau and were […]
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Alumni Reflections: Didi Browdy, Broward, 1998
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Broward Year(s) attended: 1998 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Too many. The most memorable was when we were at Displacement Camp and a participant on my bus or in my group found her family […]
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Reflections from Auschwitz by Nicole Rock & Rachel Gerber, South Africa, 2017
We find it quiet hard to write in simple words what we had to witness in those 3 hours at Auschwitz. We started our journey from Warsaw to Krakow which is a mere 5 hours.. the journey to Krakow reminded us as we distantly glanced out the window at the journeys our fellow brothers and […]
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Alumni Reflections: Emanuel Brazil, Montreal High School, 2017
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Montreal High School Year(s) attended: 2017 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? The most memorable moment of the March for me was during the walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau when we began to walk downhill […]
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LIFE AFTER TRAGEDY: NEW DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWS HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
JPost – Holocaust survivor Ed Mosberg still wears a bracelet bearing his identification number from Mauthausen concentration camp. He and other survivors describe their lives during and after the Holocaust in new documentary “Destination Unknown”. The film, compiled over the course of 14 years, is told through the accounts of twelve Holocaust survivors, some of […]
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Alumni Reflection: Nicole Kochukov, South Africa, 2017
How can I write about about the 21st of April that we spent in Poland? I don’t think there is really an answer because to know what I am writing about – you would need to see it. Now I am not going to tell you about our day from start to finish, and I’m […]
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Polish Human Rights Official Under Fire for Holocaust Remark
WARSAW, Poland — A leading Polish human rights official has come under fire for saying the “Polish nation” took part in the implementation of the Holocaust — a controversial statement in a country that never collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. Adam Bodnar, the country’s human rights commissioner, or ombudsman, apologized for the […]
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March of the Living expresses our sadness over the passing of David Shentow Z”L Holocaust Survivor and Educator
David Shentow, of Ottawa, Canada, educated thousands of young people about the Holocaust and the dangers of hatred and intolerance. A true gentleman, and gentle man, his legacy of kindness and hope will live on in the hearts of so many teens who had the privilege of joining him on the March of the Living […]
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We must ‘stand up and not remain silent in the face of hatred’
Arielle Zelikovitz, a Grade 11 student at Sir Robert Borden High School, attended the sentencing hearing for the young Ottawa man convicted in the series of anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and racist graffiti attacks that shocked the city last November, and offers these thoughts. It is quite upsetting to watch the news and, on a regular basis, […]
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