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March of the Living involves youth from around the world
More than 10,000 young adults from 42 countries participated in the 28th Annual March of the Living through Auschwitz-Birkenau, the world’s largest Holocaust commemoration. The March brings together both Jews and non-Jews (40-percent of participants) to mark the annual Yom Hashoah-Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Included this year were several UCF students and Hillel staff. It […]
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Polish museum shows pre-Holocaust life in color
A new museum opened in Krakow, Poland this week showcasing artwork from the pre-Holocaust Polish Jewish community. The “I Remember” museum includes hundreds of paintings by Haim Goldberg and many other Jewish artists. Goldberg, who was born in 1917 and grew up in the Jewish shtetl of Kazimierz Dolny in eastern Poland, is known as […]
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Alumni Reflection: Dalia Wlosko, Argentina, 2016
This experience has been extremely intense, difficult at times, painful but necessary. A trip that changes your outlook on the world, on the human being, and that definitely does not end when you return to your country. Knowing Israel was pure emotion, I felt I had been there. Hebraica Argentina, March and Mario Sinay, I […]
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JEWELRY FOUND HIDDEN IN HOLOCAUST VICTIM’S MUG AT AUSCHWITZ M– USEUM
A spokesman for the Auschwitz Museum says a Polish-made golden ring and chain have been found hidden under the false base of an enameled mug that must have belonged to a victim of the Nazis’ death camp. Piotr Sawicki told The Associated Press on Friday that the find was revealed during conservation work for enamel […]
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Ridgefield High School Senior Takes a Life Changing Journey to March of the Living
As I glanced up at the dark, stormy sky, there was only one thought going through my mind. Why? Why me? Why was I one of the lucky ones? Why were my people such a hated people? These were my thoughts as I walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Then as we walked through the […]
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Teens Forever Changed by March of the Living
The 99 Broward County high school grade 11 and 12 students who returned May 16 from the 14-day March of the Living program met with their parents May 19 at the Posnack Jewish Community Center in Davie to discuss their feelings and observations of the MOTL program. The phrase “I am forever changed. I will […]
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Hermina Hirsch, 89, fulfills longtime dream at Rays-Tigers game
An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the United States national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. Hermina Hirsch sang Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit before theTigers played Tampa Bay. Hermina Hirsch reportedly has been a Tigers fan since she moved to the Detroit area more than 60 years […]
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Never forget: Holocaust horrors collected at USC Shoah Foundation
More than 900 Holocaust testimonies recorded over four decades by the Jewish Family and Children Services Holocaust Center of San Francisco are now part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, it was announced Monday. In a two-year partnership, the USC Shoah Foundation digitized, archived and catalogued Holocaust testimonies taken by JFCS in the Greater […]
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BJE LA MOTL 2016 Travel Blog
Day 1 – We arrived! LA Arrives en masse! The Los Angeles delegation of the March of the Living arrived in Warsaw, safe and sound. After 5 flights out of LAX, connecting flights out of Chicago and New York, our delegation of 257 students, staff and survivors arrive in Warsaw’s Chopin Airport within moments of […]
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At March of the Living, learning how to live
Sophie Wortsman. 16. Toronto. Student. Benji Zoller. 18. Dallas. Student. Sam Peltz. 83. Florida and New York. Survivor. Jacob Kamaras. 30. Houston. Journalist. We all shared the same experience on May 5 — the 28th annual March of the Living, a 1.86-mile walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau as a tribute to victims of the Holocaust. […]
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