Past Marches

Now entering its 26th year, the March of the Living is a celebration of Jewish memory and renewed life.

On Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) students participate in a three kilometer March from Auschwitz to Birkenau as a silent tribute to victims of the Shoah. Students observe Yom Ha’zikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) and celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day) while they are in Israel.

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Yad Vashem Name Recovery Project

Since 1955, Yad Vashem has worked to fulfill its mandate to preserve the memory of the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust by collecting their names, the ultimate representation of a person’s identity. Millions of victims remain unidentified. Yad Vashem urgently calls upon Jewish communities to recover their names through a worldwide Names Recovery Project. Unless we assume collective responsibility for completing this vital mission, some of them may be lost forever. This is a race against time, before those who remember them are no longer with us.

For more information visit Yad Vahem's Remembrance Page.

In the News

Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto, Sigmund Freud, and the Psychology of Bigotry: On the Enduring Lessons of the Exodus Story
The Forward, March 15, 2013, By Austin Ratner Even as it was happening, some appear to have understood the Holocaust as a new chapter in the old biblical story of the Exodus: The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto began, history books tell us, on Passover eve, April 1943. The Passover holiday has certainly apprehended that [...]
This day in Jewish history / A Polish suicide to protest Allied indifference to the Jews’ fate
Haaretz, May 12, 2013, By David B. Green Shmuel Zygielbojm gave up his own life as a symbol of frustration at the Allies’ inaction in the face of the slaughter of the Jews. On May 12, 1943, Shmuel Zygielbojm, one of two Jewish members of the Polish government in exile in London, killed himself, in [...]
NYTimes OpDoc: Branko: Return to Auschwitz
The New York Times, April 14, 2013, By Topaz Adizes April 15 marks the 68th anniversary of Branko Lustig’s liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when he was not quite 13 years old. In this Op-Doc video, we follow Mr. Lustig back to Poland to visit the Auschwitz and Birkenau camps (where he was also [...]

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