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Susan Winter, Holocaust Survivor, Northeast, USA
Susan Winter DOB: March 28, 1938 Country of Origin: Budapest Hungary Delegation: Northeast, USA 1. What is motivating you to take part in the 2024 March of the Living? My Father died in Auschwitz. That’s the biggest Hungarian cemetery. I don’t remember him much. What the Jews went through in Poland [lasted] for many years, […]
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Millia Shiffman, Student, Canada
Millia Shiffman Delegation: Canada 1. What is motivating you to take part in the 2024 March of the Living? Each year at my synagogues Holocaust memorial we usually have a few speakers. When I was younger, I remember a couple speakers from Saskatoon talking about the March and how much of a priceless and meaningful […]
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Gabriella Karin, Holocaust Survivor, BJE Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gabriella Karin DOB: November 17, 1930 Country of Origin: Czechoslovakia Delegation: BJE Los Angeles, CA, USA 1. What is motivating you to take part in the 2024 March of the Living? To talk to 17 – 18-year-old teenagers about our history that I was a part of. It motivated me to go to Poland to […]
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Shaun, Student, BJE Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shaun Delegation: BJE Los Angeles, CA, USA 1. What is motivating you to take part in the 2024 March of the Living? Both my parents and both of my siblings participated in the March of the Living in past years and always reflected positively back on the experience and pushed me to participate in it […]
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Jonah Fienberg, Student, Broward County, FL, USA
Jonah Fienberg Delegation: Broward County, FL, USA 1. What is motivating you to take part in the 2024 March of the Living? I am motivated to take part in the March of the Living to serve as a testament to those who suffered at the hands of the Nazi’s during the Holocaust. By going on […]
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Hershel Greenblat, Holocaust Survivor, Southern Region, USA
Hershel Greenblat DOB: April 24, 1941 Country of Origin: Ukraine Delegation: Southern Region, USA 1. What is motivating you to take part in the 2024 March of the Living? My motivation is to help educate the future Jewish generation of what happened in the darkest days of our history and let them know that they […]
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Australian March of the Living Enters 23rd Year
A delegation of 30 adults, young adults and Holocaust survivors from Australia will be joining the 2024 March of the Living. Since 2001, the first year Australia sent a delegation to the March, approximately 2,000 participants from Australia have taken part in the March. These include 1200 students; 450 adults; 300 staff – educators, survivors, […]
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March of the Living alumni feature prominently in new ad combatting antisemitism
New Ad Combatting Antisemitism Released by FCAS – Foundation to Combat Antisemitism: March of the Living Alumni Feature Prominently in Moving Piece Please see link to “Neighbors”, a moving ad about antisemitism that recently screened at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10. The ad is drawn from a true account of an American synagogue that […]
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Jewish Resilience in the Face of Adversity
Remarks by Eli Rubenstein Director of Education, International March of the Living International March of the Living Leadership Meeting Thursday, March 28, 2024 Jewish Resilience in the Face of Adversity Good morning, afternoon and evening to all: This week, I received an email from a representative of ANU – The Museum of the […]
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From Budapest to Auschwitz
2024 March of the Living Commemorates 80 Years Since Destruction of Hungarian Jewry in the Shoah At this year’s March of the Living, participants will mark 80 years since the annihilation of Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust which began in the spring of 1944. Image: Holokauszt Emlékközpont, Budapest Prior to the March of the Living […]
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