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MOTL joins FCAS “Blue Square” campaign – Every participant will be given a 🟦 pin on the day of the March
International March of the Living, together with numerous other organizations, joining the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism’s “Stand Up to Jewish Hate” campaign to raise awareness about antisemitism and hatred against Jews and to encourage all people to post and share , the Blue Square emoji on everyone’s phone, as a symbol of their solidarity against intolerance. […]
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The International March of the Living’s 35th anniversary – interview
Today, the International March of the Living is a well-known and established event on the world calendar of Jewish events. Each year, on Yom HaShoah, thousands flock to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to walk the three-kilometer path from Auschwitz I to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Since its inception thirty-five years ago in 1988, some […]
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Remembering Ben Ferencz, Z”L
International March of the Living mourns the passing of Benjamin B. Ferencz, the lead prosecutor of the SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, and the last living last living prosecutor of the historic Nuremberg Trials. A leading human rights advocate for most of his life, he dedicated his considerable energy to the establishment of an international criminal court, and […]
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Chag Pesach Sameach from our President and Chairman
On behalf of the International March of the Living Board of Directors, we want to take a moment to wish each of you a happy, healthy, freilich and zissen Pesach filled with an abundance of love and renewed spirit for the future. Passover, one of the three Jewish Festivals celebrated each year, commemorates our liberation […]
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Marking 80 years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Thousands to participate in the 35th International March of the Living under the banner “Honoring Jewish Heroism” 42 Holocaust survivors from all over the world will lead the march, including Halina Birenbaum from Israel, who hid in a bunker during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as other grandchildren of the fighters in the uprising […]
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Survivor Spotlight: Nate Leipciger, Canada
There is no more impactful way to tell the story of the Shoah than on the site where it took place As a child survivor who encountered the Nazi occupation at age 11, was deprived of schooling, worked since age 12, survived two ghettos, was incarcerated in Auschwitz at age 15, experienced seven death and […]
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Remembering William (Bill) Kugelman, Z”L
International March of the Living deeply mourns the loss of William (Bill) Kugelman, beloved Holocaust survivor and educator who travelled with Western Region in 2012. Bill was born in 1924 in Sosniwice, Poland. Memories of his teenage years are now more than a half-century old, but they have not dimmed. At age 15 or so, […]
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Survivor Spotlight: Rosette Goldstein, Florida, USA
Marching in Auschwitz – Birkenau is vital to show the world that we are still here I was born in Paris in 1938. My parents were born in Poland and moved to France with the rise of Hitler. When the situation for the Jews worsened in Paris, my father decided that he must take steps […]
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Survivor Spotlight: Gabor Kovacs, Hungary
The March of the Living creates a bridge between the past and the future I am Gabor Kovacs. I was born in Budapest on March 31, 1932. Immediately before the Shoah, I attended high school. It was a difficult time because even among the students, we could feel the antisemitism. The behavior of my teachers […]
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March in Thessaloniki commemorates deportation of Greek Jewry
Hundreds of people marched through the port city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, marking 80 years since the deportation of Greek Jews during the Holocaust. The commemoration comes at a time of burgeoning relations between Israel and Greece, and amid increasing awareness of what happened to the latter country’s once vibrant Jewish population when it came […]
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