• 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

  • Elie Wiesel’s legacy went beyond Holocaust: Porter

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 25, 2016

    May Elie Wiesel rest in peace. The Nobel Peace Prize winner who died last weekend at 87 was an incredible human being. Anyone who has read his switchblade of a book, Night, will know that. Published in French in 1958, it was among the first Holocaust memoirs, recounting Wiesel’s time

  • Alumni Q&A: Donna Dambrot, HTMC Long Island, 2016

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 24, 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, Friends of MOTL What was the most memorable moment of your experience? The March itself and the presentations in Birkrnau were touching, empowering and beautiful.

  • Hatred, the Holocaust and the new refugee crisis

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 24, 2016

    OSWIECIM, POLAND—Bill Glied leads a block of paraders, arm in arm with his daughter Tammy. The landscape bursts with joy around them — chestnut trees wave their delicate blooms, lilacs perfume the air, birds sing and pirouette overhead. Nature’s beauty is a stark contrast to their march’s purpose: to retrace

  • Alumni Q&A: Connie Strassberg, HTMC Long Island, 2016

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 23, 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; and International Year(s) attended: 2016 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Seeing a sea of blue shirts and Israeli flags march through

  • Einsatzgruppen

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 23, 2016

    During the Holocaust, mobile killing squads known as Einsatzgruppen (made up of groups of German soldiers and local collaborators) killed over one million people following the invasion of the Soviet Union. From June 1941 until their operations were curtailed in the spring of 1943, Einsatzgruppen conducted mass killings of Jews,

  • Alumni Reflection: Rachel Greenwald, HTMC Long Island, 2016

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 22, 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? Walking and talking with people from all over the world sharing this common

  • Latvians commemorate Holocaust victims

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 22, 2016

    Latvia commemorated victims of the Holocaust on Monday, the 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Riga Choral Synagogue on July 4, 1941, which burned down with dozens still inside. Persecution of Latvia’s Jews began immediately after Nazi Germany invaded the country in June 1941. Historians estimate that 70,000 or

  • Alumni Reflection: Laura Novich, Haifa University, 1990

    Posted by MOTLorg on July 21, 2016

    What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Haifa University Overseas Students Year(s) attended: 1990 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Each camp was a different experience.  As a young adult, the most impressive experience was looking at