Alumni Reflection: Dani Shipley, Florida, 2017

  No words. Today was a day like no other. Eleven-thousand strong, from all over the world. There’s nothing like walking from a concentration camp (Auschwitz) to a death camp (Birkenau). Walking with Japanese flags on both our sides from their delegation, next to the Japanese women and men waiting to embrace you. Their signs […]

Alumni Reflection: Callan Kotzen, South Africa, 2017

After witnessing the brutality of concentration camps, the sadness of memorials and the vibrant atmosphere of Warsaw, it was time to experience the beauty and history of Kraków on our last day in Poland. We started off the day with a visit to the Zbylitowdja Gora, a mass grave where 10 000 Jews and Poles […]

Alumni Reflection: Shoshannah Bunton, Western Region, 2017

Dear Child, You were torn from your mother’s arms before you could speak. You were shot and killed by animals. You were stripped of your innocence. You were taken from this world far before you should have been. Dear Child, Know that this was not your fault. Know that your parents loved you and now […]

Alumni Reflection: Ben Shofet, Los Angeles, 2017

For two weeks, I alongside several other Beverly students took part in the 2017 March of the Living program (MOTL) with the Los Angeles Delegation. The trip was a total of two weeks. In the first week, as a group, we traveled to Warsaw, Krakow and Lublin, visiting numerous concentration camps, synagogues and other memorial sites. […]

Video Reflection by Amatzia Deutsch, Mexico, 2017

Who will tell survivors’ stories when they’re gone? by David Benson, BJE LA, 2015

In the spring of 2011, David Benson, found himself walking with his grandmother, Holocaust survivor Sidonia Lax, down the “black path” that once led to the crematorium at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. It was Lax’s fifth trip with the annual International March of the Living as a survivor, with the Builders of Jewish […]

Alumni Reflection, Juliana Bentel, South Africa, 2017

Poland is a sad city because the people living there every day have to wake up mindful of the past (the ones that acknowledge the past). They carry this heavy burden on their shoulders day by day. That cold day we visited a mass grave of children, women and men that were shot in the […]

Join a March while survivors can still share their experiences by Rabbi Gideon Sylvester, UK, 2017

Times of Israel – Imagine that your best friend is having a nightmare. He thrashes about in his sleep; crying and screaming hysterically. Naturally, you would wake him, comfort him and reassure him that everything will be alright. But when the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl faced this predicament, he resisted the temptation to awaken his friend. Instead, […]

Video Reflections from Martin Buber School, Argentina, 2017

Alumni Reflection: Catalina Eps, ORT Argentina, 2017

Since I was a child, They taught me about the holocaust, they told me what happened, but it was not the same studyng the history than to see by myself what really happened. I could feel what they suffered, and even reasoned that it could have been me, that it was only a question of […]