• Canadian PM visits Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor

    Posted by MOTLorg on August 2, 2016

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday toured the German built Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp following the conclusion of a two-day NATO summit held in Warsaw, Poland. Trudeau was accompanied by Holocaust survivor and Toronto resident Nate Leipciger. Leipciger, who was born in Poland in 1928, immigrated to Toronto with his

  • The March of the Living Exhibit in Oswiecim

    Posted by MOTLorg on August 1, 2016

     The March of the Living Exhibit is deeply honored that our special exhibit has been moved to a new location in front of the Library in the center of the city of Oswiecim. During the previous 9 months, the exhibit was placed at the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, enabling hundreds of thousands

  • How A Mass. Woman Learned Her Family’s Full Holocaust Story

    Posted by MOTLorg on August 1, 2016

    When Severin Fayerman died last year, his daughter Kris Fayerman-Piatt, a Milton native, thought she knew all there was to know about her father’s Holocaust story. But it turned out she knew only a part of it. The pain of the Holocaust apparently caused her father to keep his true

  • How Many Neighbors Were Complicit in the Holocaust?

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 29, 2016

    Facing deportation to Auschwitz, 13-year-old Steven Fenves watched as neighbors in Hungarian-occupied Yugoslavia lined the stairs, “waiting to ransack whatever we left behind, cursing at us, yelling at us, spitting at us as we left.” Choking up, he also recalled in an oral history that the family’s cook rushed into

  • Rivlin to Yad Vashem officials: Israel is not compensation for the Holocaust

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 28, 2016

    In a somewhat shocking opening statement to the Yad Vashem International Leadership mission that had just arrived from Poland to Israel, President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday said, “The State of Israel is not by any means a compensation to the Jewish people for the atrocities carried out against them in

  • THE DAY WORDS FAILED ELIE WIESEL

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 27, 2016

    It was the 1990 March of the Living. Thousands of young people from around the world had gathered on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the ruins of Auschwitz-Birkenau for our closing ceremony. Elie Wiesel began to speak. The crowd hung on his every word. As he approached the end of his

  • Rabbinic Reflections: Wiesel and Jewish remembering

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 27, 2016

    I was there. I was in the Birkenau death camp with Elie Wiesel in 1990. I had just marched from Auschwitz with thousands of Jews from around the world, mostly youths like myself at the time, as part of The March of the Living. The March of the Living commemorates

  • Alumni Reflection: David Karpel

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 26, 2016

    What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Leo Martin with Center for Advancement of Jewish Education in Miami Year(s) attended: 1988 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Walking among the stones at Treblinka was powerful, but I

  • Adults can join BBYO March of the Living

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 26, 2016

    I recently returned from my first trip on the March of the Living. It is something I’d thought about doing for some time, but wasn’t sure such a deep immersion in the Holocaust was right for me. However when presented with the opportunity to join the BBYO North America delegation

  • Alumni Reflection: Dinah Kramer, HTMC Long Island, 2016

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 25, 2016

    What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County Year(s) attended: 2016 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? There are many but the most powerful were standing in Auschwitz knowing that