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San Diego Participants Reflect on this Year’s March of the Living
In honor of this year’s Yom Hashoah, another group of young San Diegans joined counterparts from across the world on the March of the Living. The San Diego Jewish Journal online published reflections from two local participants. This trip is historically moving, and gives young people a chance to really understand what we mean when we […]
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‘Taste of Hope’ focuses on food during the Holocaust
When prisoners in Nazi concentration camps cooked traditional meals together, it restored the hope that one day their lives could return to normal. Now, one Sacramento playwright has dramatized that idea, and is inviting audiences to dine with her. Sarah Acrich’s “Taste of Hope: A Play in Three Courses” was inspired by stories from family […]
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Donors give $11,000 so Holocaust Survivor Band can take music to Auschwitz
Saul Dreier and Ruby Sosnowicz are Holocaust survivors. They came together to start the Holocaust Survivor Band. They are returning to the birthplace of their most haunting memories — and dozens of sympathetic strangers are helping pay their way. Two musically inclined Holocaust survivors are heading to Poland on July 21 to play their favorite […]
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Canadian PM visits Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday toured the German built Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp following the conclusion of a two-day NATO summit held in Warsaw, Poland. Trudeau was accompanied by Holocaust survivor and Toronto resident Nate Leipciger. Leipciger, who was born in Poland in 1928, immigrated to Toronto with his father after their liberation from […]
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The March of the Living Exhibit in Oswiecim
The March of the Living Exhibit is deeply honored that our special exhibit has been moved to a new location in front of the Library in the center of the city of Oswiecim. During the previous 9 months, the exhibit was placed at the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, enabling hundreds of thousands of individuals from all over […]
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How A Mass. Woman Learned Her Family’s Full Holocaust Story
When Severin Fayerman died last year, his daughter Kris Fayerman-Piatt, a Milton native, thought she knew all there was to know about her father’s Holocaust story. But it turned out she knew only a part of it. The pain of the Holocaust apparently caused her father to keep his true identity buried deep inside until […]
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How Many Neighbors Were Complicit in the Holocaust?
Facing deportation to Auschwitz, 13-year-old Steven Fenves watched as neighbors in Hungarian-occupied Yugoslavia lined the stairs, “waiting to ransack whatever we left behind, cursing at us, yelling at us, spitting at us as we left.” Choking up, he also recalled in an oral history that the family’s cook rushed into the apartment to salvage artwork […]
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Rivlin to Yad Vashem officials: Israel is not compensation for the Holocaust
In a somewhat shocking opening statement to the Yad Vashem International Leadership mission that had just arrived from Poland to Israel, President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday said, “The State of Israel is not by any means a compensation to the Jewish people for the atrocities carried out against them in the Holocaust. Israel was not […]
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THE DAY WORDS FAILED ELIE WIESEL
It was the 1990 March of the Living. Thousands of young people from around the world had gathered on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the ruins of Auschwitz-Birkenau for our closing ceremony. Elie Wiesel began to speak. The crowd hung on his every word. As he approached the end of his remarks, his voice filled with […]
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Rabbinic Reflections: Wiesel and Jewish remembering
I was there. I was in the Birkenau death camp with Elie Wiesel in 1990. I had just marched from Auschwitz with thousands of Jews from around the world, mostly youths like myself at the time, as part of The March of the Living. The March of the Living commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) […]
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