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Poland March of the Living 2018
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Rutgers Joins International Effort to Prevent Hatred, Intolerance and Prejudice
Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience memorializes those killed during Holocaust at annual International March of the Living at Auschwitz. Joining 13,000 people from more than 40 countries, representatives of Rutgers University’s Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience took part this month in the International March of the Living – memorializing six million […]
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Participant Interviews at Mega Event 2018
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Thankful days: Why I made aliyah by Joseph Bendah
Five years have passed since I immigrated to Israel from the United States, and an additional two years have passed since I was released from the Israel Defense Forces. Each year since I arrived in Israel, I have flown overseas to visit my family and friends. On each of my visits I ask myself the […]
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From Auschwitz to the Western Wall
More than 6,000 students arrived in Israel this week following their participation in the 30th March of the Living in Poland last Thursday, April 12, an international procession from Auschwitz to Birkenau led by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and the top echelon of Israel’s security forces to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Hashoah). The young […]
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PRESIDENT RIVLIN: ISRAEL IS THE ‘MARCH OF THE LIVING’ FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
“The establishment of the State of Israel is a miracle, though it is not self-evident, and it is something that must be experienced to be believed and understood.” President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday warmly welcomed some 6,000 young students from 40 countries across the world who took part in 30th March of the Living from […]
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My first time in Poland; the gentle chaos of defiance
This week I visited Poland for the very first time. I’ve probably avoided this journey because I grew up in a Holocaust-drenched-home and then lived in Holocaust-steeped-Israel. A few years ago, I visited Lithuania where our family comes from and where, in the village which my great-grandfather left, 2,000 Jews were locked into the synagogue […]
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ONE-FIFTH OF ALL AMBASSADORS TO U.N. CURRENTLY IN ISRAEL
The purpose of the trip is to give the ambassadors, who are often called upon to vote on Israel-related issues a first-hand look at the challenges the country faces. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is acting as a guide for some 20% of his fellow ambassadors to the UN, who are currently getting […]
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March of the Living diary: ‘The more we learn – the more questions we have’
Karen Pollock, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational trust, was part of the 275-strong UK’s delegation to Poland for March of the Living, as more than 11,000 came together at Auschwitz to remember six million Jews. Following an emotional week of learning about Jewish history and Polish-Jewish life, she reflects on what Sunday 8th I […]
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