• Survivor Story: Rick Carrier

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 19, 2012

  • Out of the Depths: The Story Of A Child Of Buchenwald Who Returned Home At Last

    Posted by MOTLorg on November 1, 2011

    By Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, with Forewords by Shimon Peres and Elie Weisel In his recent book, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau tells the miraculous story of his rescue from the Holocaust as a young child, and his subsequent aliyah to the land of Israel. Arriving as an eight-year-old orphan

  • Survivor Story: Heddi Bohm

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 20, 2010

    Holocaust survivor, Heddi Bohm, delivers a powerful speech about her journey to liberation.

  • Poems of Life and Death

    Posted by MOTLorg on February 13, 2009

    By Simcha Paull Raphael, Ph.D. From the Preface: In April 2006 I traveled to Poland as a participant on a March of the Living tour. Over the course of less than one week I visited the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka and Majdanek, as well as the killing fields of

  • Highlights of the Long Term Study 2008

    Posted by MOTLorg on December 15, 2008

    Jewish Identity, Faith & Practice With regard to their sense of Jewish identity, 88% agreed there was an increase in this feeling following the March of the Living. 61% felt an increase in the importance of their adherence to their Jewish faith after the March of the Living. Motivation to

  • Survivor Story: Nate Leipciger

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 8, 2007

    Why I Continue to Return to Poland: The Uniqueness of the March of the LivingThe following are my personal observations and assessments of the March. I am sure that each Survivor, student, educator and chaperon has their own list of factors that influence and are responsible for the success of the March. These comments

  • March of the Living to Auschwitz camp led by Shimon Peres

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 25, 2006

    Thousands of people are expected today at the site of the Auschwitz death camp to remember the victims of the Holocaust with a solemn march. Shimon Peres, the former Israeli prime minister and a Nobel peace prize laureate, is to lead some 8,000 people, mostly students, in the March of

  • Suvivor Story: George Herceg

    Posted by MOTLorg on June 1, 2004

    George Herceg, Holocaust survivor and March of the Living participant, shares his experience at the 2004 March. “The March of the Living is a very worthwhile cause. Every Jewish school should make an effort to send their students on this program. But not just Jewish schools – the program is

  • Survivor Story: Liselotte Ivry

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 8, 2001

    “I went on the March of the Living in 1999 and also in 2001 as a survivor but I prefer being called a ‘Witness to History’. It was with a lot of soul-searching and trepidations that I decided to go on the March. Once I decided I was involved with

  • Survivor Story: Anita Ekstein

    Posted by MOTLorg on May 18, 2000

    By Anita Helfgott Ekstein “I was a child of seven when the Nazis came to our town in Poland. We had been occupied by the Soviets for nearly the first two years of the war. We were taken to a ghetto in a larger town. My parents went daily to