Rabbinic Reflections: Wiesel and Jewish remembering

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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