Tucson teens, local survivor join defiant ‘March of the Living’

It takes a special kind of courage to revisit your worst memories. When Holocaust survivor Pawel Lichter of Tucson accompanied a group of Jewish teens on the 29th annual March of the Living, April 9-May 13, he stepped back to 1939. In a basement on Warszawska Street, in his home

Elie Wiesel’s Only Son Steps Up to His Father’s Legacy

New York Times – OSWIECIM, Poland — Back when all he wanted was to play baseball and tinker with his computer, Elisha Wiesel found himself touring Treblinka, evading KGB agents on the Moscow subway and watching his father accept the Nobel Peace Prize. “I wanted a normal American childhood,” said

‘We run like mouses to hide,’ a Holocaust survivor saved by ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ remembers

Holocaust survivor Stefania Sitbon (nee Kenigswein) visits the Warsaw Zoo, where she and her family hid for more than two months during World War II. (Sarit Shina / March of the Living) By Kristina Jovanovski / LA Times Stefania Sitbon sits in the dining room of her Toronto apartment, surrounded

Jerusalem Post Special Report on the 2017 March of the Living

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Survivor Amek Adler dies while on Holocaust speaking tour

CJN – At 89, Abram (Amek) Adler had ambitious plans for the future. His Holocaust memoir, Six Lost Years, had just been published and the official launch of the book was scheduled for May 25, followed by a national book tour in the fall. On April 24, Adler was on

My father was a witness, and now I will be a witness

Op-ed: My father, Elie Wiesel, was a witness to the worst atrocity that man has ever unleashed on fellow man. Each Friday night, my wife and I become witnesses that the enemy has failed; that we, the Jewish people, live. YNet/Elisha Wiesel – “But beware and watch yourself very well, lest

How the March of the Living began by Holocaust Survivor, Noah Klieger|

His name was Henri Roques, and in 1987 he sparked an international scandal when the University of Nantes in France awarded him a doctorate for a thesis in which he denied the Holocaust. A young Knesset member decided at the time that something had to be done in “response” to

I thought I knew my family’s Holocaust story — until I met this man

JewishJournal – I was in the middle of an email exchange with my Israeli cousin, Miriam, when she unwittingly dropped the bombshell. I had written to her early last year to tell her that I would be making my first visit to Poland. I knew she had traveled to the

ELIE WIESEL’S SON TO LIGHT TORCH AT MARCH OF THE LIVING

The son of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel will light a torch in memory of his father during this year’s March of the Living, an annual educational program that brings people from all over the world to Poland and Israel to study the history of the

A celebrity photographer trains his lens on Holocaust survivors

JTA — Harry Borden is Britain’s Annie Leibovitz. Sort of. The American-born, U.K.-raised portrait photographer, 52, admits there “are some parallels” in their careers, though “obviously, I’m nowhere near as successful,” he told JTA. Still, Borden is England’s go-to photographer when a publication wants a celebrity portrait. Elton John, Paul