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IN COMMEMORATION OF ELIE WIESEL, JEWISH LEADERS GATHER IN HIS HOMETOWN
The event included an interfaith dialogue between representatives of Romania’s religious communities and Jewish leaders from Israel. SIGHET, ROMANIA – Local leaders and Jewish dignitaries from around the world gathered Thursday in Sighet, the birthplace of Jewish luminary Elie Wiesel, to protest rising antisemitism and commend town officials for acting
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March of Many Meanings
April, 2018 marked my second opportunity to staff the March of the Living trip for Mid Atlantic Region of the United States as a representative of StandWithUs. The March brings thousands of Jewish teenagers and Holocaust survivors from around the world and Israel, which culminates with a silent march in Poland between
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March of the Living changes lives
It was the fall of 2008 when my parents asked me if I had any interest in going on the “March of The Living.” My mother, a career Jewish professional and my father who studied in Poland in college and whose own father had been present on the liberation of
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March of the Living Statement on Hatred in Romania
We at the International March of the Living are both saddened and outraged by the contempt and hatred shown by the recent antisemitic graffiti painted in Romania on the Memorial House of the late Elie Wiesel, z”l. Professor Wiesel was the acclaimed voice of conscience and the moral compass for
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JQ International LGBTQ+ & ALLY 2019 Info Session
We are pleased to announce that JQ International will be sponsoring the first ever LGBTQ+ & Ally Adult March of the Living Delegation in 2019! This once-in-a-lifetime experience is open to interested participants worldwide with the opportunity to join for either the Poland only portion or both Poland and Israel.
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To the vandal who targeted me: I won’t be silent about antisemitism
Written by March of the Living Holocaust Survivor Max Eisen I don’t know who you are. I can’t imagine we’ve met. But last Friday you chose to spray-paint the word achtung on my photo, featured on a sign outside Beth Jacob Synagogue, promoting UJA Federation of Greater Toronto’s Holocaust education.
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Determined: One Boy’s Holocaust Survival Story
From the Death March to the March of the Living Determined: One Boy’s Holocaust Survival Story by Martin Baranek with Lisa B. Cicero The new memoir about overcoming loss and suffering at the hands of the Nazis, and how a young boy’s undying spirit and a series of miracles helped
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Production begins on new 360 testimony featuring Holocaust survivor on site at concentration camp
Up and down, up and down. All day, every day. From the base of a stone quarry, inmates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria were compelled by Nazis during the Holocaust to climb 186 steps to the top, lugging boulders that would be used for German state construction projects.
