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Shimon Peres 1923-2016 ז״ל
The International March of the Living Board of Directors, Staff, Global Leadership and Alumni around the world deeply mourn the passing of our friend and fellow Marcher Shimon Peres ז״ל. May his memory be a blessing. “Nobody could have broken us. They hate us, they persecute us, they killed many of us, but we remain and we shall […]
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Video & Transcript: President Shimon Peres Message – 2016 March of the Living Latrun on Yom Ha’atsmaut
You already made the March of the Living. From the abyss of Jewish History, the Shoah, the lowest, most tragic point in our life, to the summit of Jewish achievements, the State of Israel. The lowest and highest. I know people say that Israel is a miracle. Israel is not a miracle – Israel is […]
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March of the Living on The Shtick with Renny Rychter
Renny Richter, Co-President of March of the Living, tells us about the amazing experience of traveling to Poland and Israel in a group, dedicated to the Memory of the Holocaust, commemorating Yom Hashoah in Poland, then Yom Hazikaron and celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut in Israel.
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The True Tale of the Woman Who Took Down the Holocaust Denier
Denial’ is a new film based on the real-life legal battle between Deborah Lipstadt and the man who claimed the Holocaust never happened. In the fall of 1994, Deborah Lipstadt walked into an auditorium at DeKalb Community College in Atlanta, prepared to give a lecture on Holocaust denial. Little did she know that the events […]
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Hungarian Neo-Nazis Vandalize Holocaust Protest ‘Living Memorial’
The Living Memorial, a monument in Budapest’s Liberty Square, was vandalized over the weekend, after a call by the neo-Nazi website Kuruc.info to destroy it, the website Hungarian Free Press reported Sunday. The Living Memorial was erected back in 2014 in protest against the monument to the German occupation erected by the government, which deflects […]
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World’s Oldest Working Journalist, 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Noah Klieger, Fears Nazi Genocide Will Be Forgotten in 50 Years
One of Israel’s best-known Holocaust survivors told a packed audience in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening about his genuine fear that the Nazi genocide will not be remembered 50 years from now. Noah Klieger expressed this concern at an event that doubled as the release of a documentary film about his having staved off the gas chambers at Auschwitz […]
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Holocaust Survivor Has One Regret About Hunting Nazis
(AP) TEL AVIV, Israel — Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge, the leader of the plot has only one simple regret — that to his knowledge, he didn’t actually kill any Nazis. Joseph Harmatz is one of the few remaining Jewish “Avengers” who carried out a mass […]
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Rivlin Meets Daughter of Greek Mayor Who Saved Jews in Holocaust
YERUSHALAYIM – President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday met in his office with Lana Karrer, daughter of Loukas Karrer who served as Mayor of the Greek island of Zakynthos during the Nazi occupation of the island. Mayor Karrer, together with the local bishop, was responsible for saving the nearly 300 Jews who lived on the […]
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Keeping the Legacy of the Holocaust Alive
“How does one take on the memories of another person, let alone the collective memories of millions?” That was a question posed by Andrea Bolender at a tribute dinner last night to benefit the Holocaust Museum and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. The question is a conundrum, but one that must be answered by all […]
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Holocaust survivor Max Steinmetz shares his harrowing story, and says ‘anything can happen’ today
[huge_it_slider id=”3″] Roy S. Johnson | rjohnson@al.com It’s not always easy to talk about history—not the most wrenching and shameful periods, the heinous events and people without conscience that have high-jacked us and ripped us apart over the centuries. It’s especially hard for those who witnessed it, endured it and survived it. For those who […]
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