Survivor Story: Chief Rabbi Péter Kardos

CLICK FOR ENGLISH TRANSLATION Kardos Péter vagyok. Kösztenbaum Péterként születtem 1936-ban, vagyis 8 éves koromban éltem át és túl a holokausztot. Kispolgári családba kerültem, mégpedig ortodox zsidó családba és ortodox életmódban telt el a gyermekkorom. Anyám háztartásbeli volt apám hivatalnok. A hivatalos holokauszt kezdet, 1944 március 19.-e a német megszállás előtt, jogfosztásokról már akkor hallottam, […]

#CantBeCompared campaign against Holocaust Trivialization

March of the Living & JBS: Interview Series & Blind Love: A Holocaust Journey Through Poland with Man’s Best Friend

There is neither Greek or Jew

Benjamin Albalas, Greek Holocaust survivor, is a Jewish leader and one of the key pillars on the Greek Jewish community. Among his many titles, he is the Chair of the European March of the Living (EMOTL).   Born in Athens in 1937, Benjanim Albalas was a child at the Holocaust.  His family was managed to […]

International March of the Living commends historic UN resolution condemning Holocaust denial

“Passage of this historic resolution sends a clear message to the world that the Holocaust is history’s unforgettable fact” International March of the Living President Phyllis Greenberg Heideman and Chairman Dr. Shmuel Rosenman said today in Washington and Tel Aviv: “As we continue our efforts to educate the next generation on the history of the […]

Survivor Speaker Series with Gabriella Y. Karin

International March of the Living continuing survivor speaker series with Gabriella Y. Karin was held on Thursday, January 20, 2022. Click on the video player below to watch the program. Gabriella is a survivor of the Holocaust and has dedicated her life to Holocaust education as a docent and speaker worldwide. She has become an […]

The rise of antisemitism has been tied to rising tide of intolerance

By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Peter Kraus was born on 5 June 1942 in Budapest.  His parents, Imre and Clara, prior to the start of WWII, lived in formerly Hungarian town of Szabadka – which became the Yugoslavian town of Subotica when Europe was carved up by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.  […]

“I am deeply worried that in 100 years the Holocaust will be a blip in history”

By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Rosette Goldstein, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor from the United States, is alive today because, during World War II, a French farmer and his family allowed her to hide in their home. “Monsieur and Madame Martin and the girls were very good to me,” she said. “I was […]

“Seeing people wearing a yellow star today is terrible! I had to wear mine as a kid. It was an offensive symbol, that segregated us from society”.

Holocaust survivor Luis Opatowski Goldberg, in conversation with Alina Garber, March of the Living, Mexico Luis Opatowski Goldberg, was born in Brussels just a few months before the war began. Luis was hidden in a church and served as an altar boy. Later he was taken to the Stutthof labor camp. Luckily, he survived the […]

Werner Reich, a survivor of Mengele’s experiments and the death march in Auschwitz: “The Holocaust can happen again if we are not observant and if we don’t focus on humanity being taught to be ethical.”

Werner is a docent at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Werner Reich was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1927. In 1933, his father lost his job as an engineer due to anti-Jewish laws. The family emigrated to Zagreb, Yugoslavia, where he attended local […]