• March for the Future

    If we are to believe, as many great philosophers do, that we are products of our experiential knowledge, it is then imperative to analyze and accept our life experiences as integral to who we are, what we believe and how we behave. It is with this philosophy in mind that I believe it is of […]

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  • ‘Each participant becomes an agent of change’

    Arutz Sheva sat down for a talk with March of the Living World Chair Dr. Shmuel Rosenman. The “March of the Living” Holocaust educational programs combine a visit to the Nazi extermination camps with a trip to Israel. Arutz Sheva will be present during the current trip to cover the march. Rosenman explains that the […]

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  • The time has come for world leadership to stand up to antisemitism

    Dr. Shmuel Rosenman has a clear and concise message to European and world leaders concerning the growing incidence of antisemitism – it is time to act. He has become increasingly alarmed over the last five or six years as renewed antisemitism has made news headlines and Jewish lives feel more precarious. It is impossible to […]

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  • How the March of the Living began by Holocaust Survivor, Noah Klieger|

    His name was Henri Roques, and in 1987 he sparked an international scandal when the University of Nantes in France awarded him a doctorate for a thesis in which he denied the Holocaust. A young Knesset member decided at the time that something had to be done in “response” to that insult. A few years […]

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  • Alumni Reflection: Jonathan Kier, South Africa, 2017

    DAY 1: How does one experience the horrors, violence – and fear – that is the Holocaust? The word experience does not only mean to witness and feel – but to place YOURSELF in the burnt shoes of those who perished. We arrived in Warsaw, Poland via Amsterdam at 5 in the afternoon. When flying […]

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  • International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on 2017 March of the Living

    From 23-25 April the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), Ambassador Benno Bättig, and the IHRA Executive Secretary, Dr Kathrin Meyer, attended the International March of the Living in Poland at the invitation of Austrian Minister of Education, Sonja Hammerschmid. On 23 April, the IHRA Chair was invited to address the audience at […]

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  • BEING JEWISH MEANS NOT GIVING UP HOPE

    In February 1997, just over 20 years ago, headlines carried the news of the tragic crash of two helicopters over northern Israel, resulting in the deaths of 73 young Israeli soldiers. All of Israel, together with Jews around the world, mourned the loss of so many of Israel’s soldiers, most of them in their late […]

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  • SLAIN IDF SOLDIER’S LETTER TO HIS PARENTS TO BE READ IN AUSCHWITZ

    “I am going to the State of Israel. My country and ours. And I understand, thanks to you, what my country gives me, but mainly – what I need to give of myself to the country.” 19 JPost – The parents of missing IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin will read a letter written by their son […]

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  • I thought I knew my family’s Holocaust story — until I met this man

    JewishJournal – I was in the middle of an email exchange with my Israeli cousin, Miriam, when she unwittingly dropped the bombshell. I had written to her early last year to tell her that I would be making my first visit to Poland. I knew she had traveled to the small town that was the […]

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  • Students meet survivors before March of the Living

    (Sun Sentinel) In preparation for the two-week March of the Living trip that begins on April 20, the South Florida teenage participants met with Holocaust survivors who are joining them on this emotional journey. The March of the Living is an annual educational program which brings individuals from all over the world to Poland in […]

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