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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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Alumni Reflection: David Karpel
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Leo Martin with Center for Advancement of Jewish Education in Miami Year(s) attended: 1988 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? Walking among the stones at Treblinka was powerful, but I most remember the mausoleum at […]
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Adults can join BBYO March of the Living
I recently returned from my first trip on the March of the Living. It is something I’d thought about doing for some time, but wasn’t sure such a deep immersion in the Holocaust was right for me. However when presented with the opportunity to join the BBYO North America delegation comprised of 120 Jewish teens […]
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Alumni Reflection: Dinah Kramer, HTMC Long Island, 2016
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County Year(s) attended: 2016 What was the most memorable moment of your experience? There are many but the most powerful were standing in Auschwitz knowing that my father and his siblings […]
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Elie Wiesel’s legacy went beyond Holocaust: Porter
May Elie Wiesel rest in peace. The Nobel Peace Prize winner who died last weekend at 87 was an incredible human being. Anyone who has read his switchblade of a book, Night, will know that. Published in French in 1958, it was among the first Holocaust memoirs, recounting Wiesel’s time as a Nazi prisoner primarily […]
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Alumni Q&A: Donna Dambrot, HTMC Long Island, 2016
What is the name of the March of the Living Delegation / Group that you traveled with? Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, Friends of MOTL What was the most memorable moment of your experience? The March itself and the presentations in Birkrnau were touching, empowering and beautiful. What impact did Poland have […]
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