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‘Maybe this is a prison:’ Holocaust survivor shares her story and pleads for communication
They traveled for hours on the railroad squeezed tightly into cattle cars, thinking they would travel for six or seven hours and arrive in Germany. When the train finally stopped 3 1/2 days later, Renée Firestone was among the thousands of people who poured out of the cattle cars where Nazi soldiers and their growling […]
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Alumni Reflection: No Limit to What We Can Do by Rachel Rothstein, 2016
I am a very emotional person. Maybe it’s part of my personality or maybe it’s because I fall under the category of moody 17-year-old girl. I’m emotional when I get a bad mark. I’m emotional when I get in a fight with my friends. I’m emotional when I hear about a tragedy in the world. […]
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The photo that alerted the world
Dr Michael Siegel, an eminent 50-year-old German Jewish lawyer, is shown in the photo, bruised, barefoot, trousers ripped, being marched by Nazi ‘brown-shirt’ auxiliary police. The sign hanging from his neck was scrawled with the message, ‘Ich bin Jude, aber ich werde mich nie mehr bei der Polizei beschweren’ – ‘I am a Jew, but […]
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MOTL Australia: Feeling the Jewish Journey
This is your / our time to shine and show how much this program means to us, our kids and our community! Just get on board and make a contribution. Every dollar counts. Let’s hit that $120,000 that will help fund future participants. Go to www.charidy.com/march
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A March of the Living Leader’s visit to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
It was a Friday morning in early May – I had taken the express train from Krakow to Warsaw to get to my March of the Living Canada group’s hotel early for check-in. My co-staff stayed in Krakow with the group and she was responsible for taking them through Plaszow; they then needed to make […]
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VIDEO: Canadian teens take emotional pilgrimage to Nazi death camps
W5’s Sandie Rinaldo joins a group of Canadian high school students, chaperones, and Holocaust survivors on a journey from Toronto to Poland as they embark on an annual pilgrimage known as the March of the Living, an emotionally grueling tour of Nazi concentration camps.
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‘Buried Prayers’ to be shown at Kristallnacht Film Forum
Commemorating the 78th anniversary of the event considered the start of the Holocaust, the 15th annual Kristallnacht Film Forum will once again showcase a compelling Holocaust-related feature film. Presented by the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and the March of the Living’s Southern Region, “Buried Prayers” will be shown on Sunday, Nov. 13 at […]
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Marching toward a world without genocide
“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness,” Elie Wiesel often said. Those words are the driving force behind the March of the Living, an event that brings thousands of young people from around the world to Poland every spring. There they visit the places where crimes against humanity took place. The name […]
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Holocaust survivor delivers message of forgiveness
[huge_it_slider id=”4″] At dawn on an early spring day in 1944, a young Eva Mozes Kor and her family were freed from the overcrowded cattle car they’d been standing in for four days. As the doors opened, the family of six who’d been the only Jews living in a German occupied town in Romania […]
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IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living
IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living This week W5’s Sandie Rinaldo joins a new generation confronting the horrors of the past. IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living, as teens travel to the death camps in Poland and hear first-hand from the dwindling numbers of aging survivors of the […]
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