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International March of the Living to commemorate Kristallnacht across walls of Old City
Messages from around the world will be projected onto the Old City Walls of Jerusalem, on houses of prayer and public institutions around the world On the night of November 9th-10th 1938, the Nazis organized the murder of Jews and the burning of 1,400 synagogues and Jewish institutions in Germany and Austria as part of […]
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Facebook is an official partner of Let there be Light multi-faith global campaign
In our shared mission to fight antisemitism and hatred, Facebook is an official partner of our multi-faith global campaign. In supporting the International March of the Living “Let there be Light” initiative, Facebook Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said in her speech at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in Sweden […]
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Statement on Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Auschwitz
International March of the Living condemns, in the strongest terms, the recent act of vandalism in which anti-Semitic statements were sprayed on some of the wooden barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This blatant act of hatred, in the world’s largest site of mass murder – where over 1 million Jews were murdered – is a grim reminder […]
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80 years to the Final Solution in Eastern Europe – Marching to Ponar
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Lithuanian government, Jewish community and International March of the Living conducted a commemoration ceremony at the city square, which served as the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, ending with a march to the mass grave in Ponar. * Additional remembrance ceremonies took place nationwide, commemorating 200 Jewish communities annihilated during the […]
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Southern Wall Excavations – Jewish life and the celebration of Sukkot in Jerusalem in the time of the Temple with Assaf Boker
The International March of the Living hosted a guided tour with Assaf Boker in our continuing webinar series on September 23, 2021. Sukkot is one of the three pilgrimage Jewish holidays where hundreds of thousands of our ancestors have ascended to Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday and to feel part of the Jewish collective. How […]
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Shana Tova 5782 ????
On behalf of the March of the Living Officers, Board and Staff, we hope this finds you and your families safe and well. May you each be inscribed in the Book of Life for a happy, healthy, and safe new year.
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Private Tour of the Y.A. Fine Art Gallery in Jerusalem
On August 25, 2021 the International March of the Living hosted a private tour of the Y.A. Fine Art Gallery in Jerusalem, featuring March of the Living alumni and gallery founders, Yehoshua Aryeh and Jordyn Stauber. Yehoshua Aryeh and Jordyn Stauber met during the 2015 March of the Living and the rest, as they say, […]
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Alumni Spotlight: Yehoshua and Jordyn Stauber (’15), Broward County, Florida, USA
Yehoshua and Jordyn Stauber (Broward ’15), Artist and Gallery Owners This month we are proud to feature March of the Living alumni Yehoshua and Jordyn Stauber, originally from Broward County, Florida. These two participants not only met each other on the March of the Living, later to marry and form a family, but their experience […]
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The Destruction of the Lithuanian Jews – The Ponary Massacre with Jacob Shoshan
From June 1941 to July 1944, over 75,000 people, mostly Jews, were brought to Ponary, a once idyllic forested area located south of Vilna, and brutally shot and buried in open pits thus creating Lithuania’s largest mass grave. Join Jacob Shoshan, esteemed and highly sought-after International March of the Living guide and historian for a […]
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Athletes Say NO to Antisemitism
To coincide with the Olympic Games, International March of the Living, Maccabi World Union and the Maccabiah are launching a global campaign to combat the exponential rise of antisemitism around the world. Athletes, among them Olympic medal winners, are taking part in the campaign as agents of change At a time when global antisemitism is […]
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