• Spotlight on Argentina

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 19, 2024

    Argentina joined the March of the Living in 1992 at the initiative of Gilbert Lewi Z”L, who was president of Hebraica Argentina. Since then, more than 5,000 young people and adults from more than 20 institutions participated from Argentina. The first group of MOTL from Argentina was a large one formed

  • Spotlight on Northeast USA

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 19, 2024

    The Jewish Community of Greater MetroWest’s involvement with March of the Living began in 1990 with Dr. Howard Chaim Lauer the then director of the Jewish Education Association of MetroWest. I was brought in to help with recruitment and staffing in 1996, however was not able to join the group

  • Australian March of the Living Enters 23rd Year

    Posted by MOTLorg on April 3, 2024

    A delegation of 30 adults, young adults and Holocaust survivors from Australia will be joining the 2024 March of the Living. Since 2001, the first year Australia sent a delegation to the March, approximately 2,000 participants from Australia have taken part in the March. These include 1200 students; 450 adults;

  • March of the Living alumni feature prominently in new ad combatting antisemitism

    Posted by MOTLorg on March 28, 2024

    New Ad Combatting Antisemitism Released by FCAS – Foundation to Combat Antisemitism: March of the Living Alumni Feature Prominently in Moving Piece Please see link to “Neighbors”, a moving ad about antisemitism that recently screened at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10. The ad is drawn from a true account

  • Jewish Resilience in the Face of Adversity

    Posted by MOTLorg on March 28, 2024

    Remarks by Eli Rubenstein Director of Education, International March of the Living International March of the Living Leadership Meeting Thursday, March 28, 2024   Jewish Resilience in the Face of Adversity   Good morning, afternoon and evening to all: This week, I received an email from a representative of ANU

  • From Budapest to Auschwitz

    Posted by MOTLorg on March 25, 2024

    2024 March of the Living Commemorates 80 Years Since Destruction of Hungarian Jewry in the Shoah At this year’s March of the Living, participants will mark 80 years since the annihilation of Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust which began in the spring of 1944. Image: Holokauszt Emlékközpont, Budapest Prior to

  • Joint March of Remembrance and March of the Living Thessaloniki

    Posted by MOTLorg on March 17, 2024

    The Joint March of Remembrance, 81 years after the departure of the first deportation train from Thessaloniki to the death camp Auschwitz – Birkenau, took place on Sunday, March 17, 2024 with 1,200 marchers from Eleftherias Square to the Old Railway Station. This Joint March of Remembrance was organized by

  • New Film: Irena’s Vow

    Posted by MOTLorg on March 14, 2024

    We are pleased to announce the debut of Irena’s Vow, premiering in US theaters April 15 and April 16 and across Canada April 19. The film tells the heroic story of Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish nurse and a Righteous Among the Nations, who saved Jewish workers during the Holocaust.

  • Food, Hope & Resilience: A conversation with the author June Hersh and a Holocaust Survivor

    Posted by MOTLorg on February 26, 2024

    Join us on March 14th at 5PM PT | 8PM ET for a conversation with June Hersh, author of Food, Hope & Resilience: Authentic Recipes and Remarkable Stories from Holocaust Survivors. Moderated by International March of the Living President, Phyllis Greenberg Heideman. REGISTER NOW BUY THE BOOK ABOUT THE BOOKThis

  • Remembering Sara Rus Z”L

    Posted by MOTLorg on January 25, 2024

    International March of the Living mourns the passing of Sara Rus z’l, Holocaust survivor and educator, who passed away on January 24, 2023 at the age of 96. May her family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. “I survived to tell what hatred can cause in humanity”