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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Alumni Spotlight: Yehoshua and Jordyn Stauber (’15), Broward County, Florida, USA

Yehoshua and Jordyn Stauber (Broward ’15), Artist and Gallery OwnersThis month we are proud to feature March of the Living alumni Yehoshua and Jordyn Stauber, originally from Broward County, Florida. These two participants not only met each other on the March of the Living, later to marry and form a family, but their experience on the program also influenced their choice to move to Israel. They subsequently opened an art gallery showcasing their photography of the land of Israel. To learn more about the Staubers, scroll down to watch the recording of their private tour at the bottom of this post. The two of us both grew up in South Florida, but in completely separate worlds. Our worlds collided on March of the Living when we attended the program with the Broward County delegation in 2015, and our journey together through life began. Reflecting back on our experience with March of the Living, we have agreed that the most impactful part of the trip was traveling straight from Poland to Israel. Experiencing the horrors of the camps in Poland, together with thousands of others from around the world, brought about a dual feeling: on the one hand – tragic loss, and on the other – tremendous gratitude and pride. By traveling straight afterwards to the Land where this gratitude and Jewish pride shine, the takeaway was clear. To move forward from these horrific times and memories, we as the Jewish people must stand strong in our gratitude and pride for our heritage and our Land that provides us the protection that we so desperately need and deserve. More than anything, the March taught us that we must continue to spread our pride and share our light with the world. For us, “Never Forget” does not mean to dwell on the past, but rather to forge ahead to a brighter future. This life-changing trip propelled us forward to where we are now. Not only did we meet each other on the March of the Living, but it paved a foundation for our lives filled with Jewish pride and love for the Land of Israel.After the March, Yehoshua studied at a Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and Jordyn went on to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. We got married in 2018 and shortly after manifested our dream to make Aliyah to Israel. We are now living in Jerusalem together with our two-year-old daughter, Eliana Ruth. Merging our love for Israel and Yehoshua’s passionate creativity, our business Y.A. Fine Art was born. We opened our first gallery in Jerusalem in 2019 showcasing Yehoshua’s breathtaking fine art photography of the Land of Israel. The comment we love the most is: “THIS is Israel?” The answer is always… “Yes!”From the desert in the south to the northern mountain tops, from the coast of the Mediterranean to the majesty of Jerusalem, we have the opportunity to travel the full breadth of the Land and share its wonder with the world through Yehoshua’s art. We recently released our first book, Land of Life, which contains Yehoshua’s growing body of photographs of Israel along with his inspiring written reflections on each piece. Looking back throughout our story together, it is abundantly clear that March of the Living has shaped us into the people that we are today. We are incredibly proud and grateful to continue to march on, proud of our Jewish identity and eager to share the beauty and love of Israel with the world.On August 25, 2021 the International March of the Living hosted a private tour of the Y.A. Fine Art Gallery in Jerusalem which you can view by clicking on the video player below. 

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The Destruction of the Lithuanian Jews – The Ponary Massacre with Jacob Shoshan

From June 1941 to July 1944, over 75,000 people, mostly Jews, were brought to Ponary, a once idyllic forested area located south of Vilna, and brutally shot and buried in open pits thus creating Lithuania’s largest mass grave.Join Jacob Shoshan, esteemed and highly sought-after International March of the Living guide and historian for a compelling account of the destruction of the Lithuanian Jewish community and the description of what occurred during the Ponary Massacre.Jacob was born in Jerusalem, and is a licensed tour guide, a teacher and lecturer for Tour Guide College – Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and Everyman’s University, Tel Aviv. Jacob is also a Senior Tour Director & Lecturer for the Geographical Society, Israel. He has visited 107 countries and led tours in 66 countries on all 6 continents. He is fluent in many languages and presents in-depth discussions on Jewish History, Philosophy and Culture. His background covers Holocaust Studies, Sephardi Jewish Heritage and Jewish Musicology.

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