March of the Living to honor Paul Miller for his lifelong commitment to fighting hatred

International March of the Living announced today that Paul Miller will be awarded, on November 9th, for his extraordinary efforts in advocating for human rights and protecting human dignity….

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Portraits of Moral Choices during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: Stories of Perpetrators, Bystanders and Upstanders with Tali Nates

On October 27, 2021 the International March of the Living hosted a lecture with Historian Tali Nates as part of its continuing webinar series. In this talk, we will explore the moral choices that were made by people, groups and governments during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Tali will focus on stories of perpetrators, bystanders, upstanders and their effects on the victims and explore how you tell this complex history in a Holocaust & Genocide Museum.Tali Nates is the founder and director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation. She is a historian who lectures internationally on Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. Tali has presented at numerous international conferences including at the United Nations (2016 & 2020). She published articles and contributed chapters to many books, among them God, Faith & Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors (2015), Remembering The Holocaust in Educational Settings (2018) and Conceptualizing Mass Violence, Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (2021). In 2010, Tali was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa, by the Mail & Guardian. She won many awards including the Kia Community Service Award (South Africa, 2015) and the Agit Gratias Award (2020, Czech Republic). Tali serves on the Academic Advisory Group of the School of Social and Health Sciences, Monash University (IIEMSA), South Africa. She was one of the founders of the Holocaust and Tutsi Genocide Survivors groups in Johannesburg. Tali has served as a scholar for the International March of the Living since 2000. Born to a family of Holocaust survivors, her father and uncle were saved by Oskar Schindler. The rest of the family was murdered.

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Holocaust Survivors Return to Germany: The first delegation of March of the Living since the outbreak of the Corona Pandemic

Mala Tribich, a native of Poland, who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany and was liberated from Bergen-Belsen: “Now I have completed the cycle of visiting the terrible…

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International March of the Living to commemorate Kristallnacht across walls of Old City

Messages from around the world will be projected onto the Old City Walls of Jerusalem, on houses of prayer and public institutions around the world On the night of November…

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Facebook is an official partner of Let there be Light multi-faith global campaign

In our shared mission to fight antisemitism and hatred, Facebook is an official partner of our multi-faith global campaign. In supporting the International March of the Living “Let there be…

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Statement on Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Auschwitz

International March of the Living condemns, in the strongest terms, the recent act of vandalism in which anti-Semitic statements were sprayed…

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80 years to the Final Solution in Eastern Europe – Marching to Ponar

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Lithuanian government,…

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Southern Wall Excavations – Jewish life and the celebration of Sukkot in Jerusalem in the time of the Temple with Assaf Boker

The International March of the Living hosted a guided tour with Assaf Boker in our continuing webinar series on September 23, 2021.Sukkot is one of the three pilgrimage Jewish holidays where hundreds of thousands of our ancestors have ascended to Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday and to feel part of the Jewish collective. How many of these traditions associated with the pilgrimage continue to be part of our Jewish rituals today? More than what you may expect! Join us in an eye opening virtual tour to the Southern Wall Excavations aka The Davidson Center. In our tour we walked through the traditional pilgrimage rituals through visiting different corners of the Davidson Center and learned together how some of our Jewish rituals were shaped in this very place!Assaf Boker is a first-class Israeli tour guide who brings a fresh perspective to the Middle East by combining personal experiences with a talent for educating the inquisitive traveler. Growing up with a father who was a career diplomat, Assaf has spent most of his childhood outside Israel in different countries across Europe. As a result of his childhood, he has developed two major passions – meeting new people and teaching about Israel.Assaf Boker served in the IDF as the commander of a combat intelligence unit deployed in the Gaza envelope region. After finishing his service, Assaf followed his passion for teaching about Israel and worked for three summers in Camp Ramah in California, a Jewish summer camp, as an educator.Assaf holds a BA from the Hebrew University with a double major in political science and international relations and an MA from Haifa University in Middle Eastern Studies. For the past six years, he has been working as a licensed tour guide introducing Israel to a large spectrum of groups.

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Shana Tova 5782 ????

On behalf of the March of the Living Officers, Board and Staff, we hope this finds you and your families safe and well. May you each be inscribed in…

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Private Tour of the Y.A. Fine Art Gallery in Jerusalem

On August 25, 2021 the International March of the Living hosted a private tour of the Y.A. Fine Art Gallery in Jerusalem, featuring March of the Living alumni and gallery founders, Yehoshua Aryeh and Jordyn Stauber. Yehoshua Aryeh and Jordyn Stauber met during the 2015 March of the Living and the rest, as they say, is history. Three years later they married and moved to Israel – traveling the land with Yehoshua’s camera and keen photographic eye. The dream to show Eretz Yisrael’s beauty and diversity, through Yehoshua’s photographs, culminated in the creation of the Y.A. Fine Art Gallery in Jerusalem. Join Yehoshua and Jordyn as they invite us for a virtual tour of their gallery and see Israel in a whole new lens.Jordyn Katz and Yehoshua Stauber met while participating on the 2015 March of the Living with the Broward Delegation. After Jordyn’s graduation from the University of Pennsylvania and Yehoshua’s from Yeshiva University, the young couple married, made Aliyah and in keeping with Yehoshua’s passion and skill as an avid and accomplished photographer, opened the Y.A. Fine Art Gallery in Jerusalem. Their presentation includes a reflection of the importance of their March experience and a tour of their captivating gallery as well as an explanation of his photographs and the meaning of how they not only capture the physical beauty of the Land of Israel, but how they reflect the inner beauty of her soul.Learn more about the Stauber’s by reading their March of the Living Alumni Spotlight here.  VISIT YA FINE ART WEBSITE BUY THE LAND OF LIFE BOOK YA FINE ART FACEBOOK YA FINE ART INSTAGRAM

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