Copyright © 2025 · International March of the Living · All Rights Reserved.
Website Powered by Starburst Communications
-
My Aunt Had a Dinner Party, and Then She Took Her Guests to Kill 180 Jews
Haaretz – One morning in April 2007 journalist Sacha Batthyany was approached by an elderly colleague at the Swiss daily where they both worked at the time. The colleague waved a newspaper clipping in front of him. It was an investigative report entitled, “The Hostess from Hell,” published by a German daily. Glancing at the headline, […]
Continue reading -
Alumni Reflections: Dinah Kramer, HMTC, 2016
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? HMTC Year(s) attended: 2016 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? There are many, but the most powerful were standing in Auschwitz knowing that my father and his siblings were there, visiting Treblinka, where many of […]
Continue reading -
Israeli Grandfather Who Thought Family Perished in Holocaust Discovers 500 New Relatives
Haaretz – Growing up in Israel, Alex Kafri had always assumed that aside from his parents and sister, he was alone in this world. His mother’s entire family, he knew for a fact, had been wiped out during the Holocaust. Although his father never discussed the family members left behind in Lithuania, Kafri was given […]
Continue reading -
Alumni Reflections: David Karpel, CAJE, 1988
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? CAJE Year(s) attended: 1988 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Walking among the stones at Treblinka was powerful, but I most remember the mausoleum at Majdanek. What impact did Poland have on you? My understanding […]
Continue reading -
Former Auschwitz guard, 96, found fit to serve prison sentence
Arutz Sheva – Prosecutors in the German state of Hanover say that a 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard is fit to serve a prison sentence. Oskar Groening was convicted and sentenced in July 2015 to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the camp in Poland. A federal […]
Continue reading -
How the Nazis Deceived Dutch Jews Before Sending Them to the Death Camps
Haaretz– Nothing about the footage that Rudolf Breslauer filmed here on May 30, 1944, suggests that it was taken inside one of Europe’s largest Nazi concentration camps. In the film by Breslauer, a German-Jewish inmate of the Westerbork camp in Holland’s northeast, prisoners are seen playing soccer enthusiastically in team uniforms, complete with a referee in […]
Continue reading -
Alumni Reflections: Andrea Bolender, HTMC, 2015
Growing up the “shadow of the Shoah” can never be described as a life unaffected. During my youth I often felt I carried the responsibility of making my father , sole survivor of his family, happy and proud of me. It was only much later in life that I realized the privilege of being the […]
Continue reading -
Remembrance Wall connects B’nai Mitzvah kids to Holocaust, Israel
Jewish Journal – Myrtle G. Sitowitz always has had a special place in her heart for Israel. She moved from England to the Holy Land in the 1960s, performed in the theater in Tel Aviv and met her Bronx-born husband there before immigrating with him to Los Angeles. When it was time for the bar […]
Continue reading -
Alumni Reflections: Valerie Greenfeld, USA, 2017
A SUITCASE OF PERSPECTIVE By Valerie Greenfeld April 29, 2017 To remember the heroes who resisted the Nazis and to mourn for those who were lost, I flew to Poland to walk with thousands of people from around the world from Auschwitz to Birkenau. Since 1988, when communism fell, thousands have gathered on Yom HaShoah, […]
Continue reading -
Three Italian Brothers Try to Find the Cave They Lived in During the Holocaust
JTA — Renting a house in the Italian countryside and eating loads of pasta is about as blissful a vacation as they come. For the three Anati brothers, however, such a trip is a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet the brothers — Bubi, 77; Andrea, 85; and Emmanuel, 88 — did just […]
Continue reading