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‘No statute of limitations on genocide,’ Nuremberg anniversary confab reminds
Why should the casual observer care about the seemingly obvious need to prosecute and convict Nazi war criminals, whether it be during the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s or similar proceedings in more recent years? “The Nuremberg trials only convicted the leaders and a relatively small number of people,” retired Harvard Law School professor Alan […]
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UJS bus on March of the Living 2016
UJS supported 25 students to join March of the Living UK along with 250 other participants just a few weeks ago. March of the Living UK takes participants on a journey through centuries of Polish Jewry in order to understand life before, during and after the Holocaust. Bus C (the student bus) was led by […]
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First national Holocaust museum slated to open in the Netherlands
Dutch actor and artist Jeroen Krabbe poses with two of his paintings at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. (Peter Dejong, The Associated Press) AMSTERDAM — More than 70 years after tens of thousands of Dutch Jews were deported and killed by the Nazis, the Netherlands is finally getting a national Holocaust museum. It will […]
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Haunting: Israeli star inaugurates ‘Six Million Brothers’
Famed Israeli singer David D’Or on Thursday May 5th gave the first-ever public performance of a special song written by a fallen IDF soldier, at the March of the Living in Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yoram Dori, adviser to the March of the Living management, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the song which D’Or […]
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Holocaust survivor revisits his nightmare to help young people understand what happened
Marcel Zielinski’s early childhood memories involve people clamouring to avoid incineration in the Nazi death camps of his native Poland during the Second World War. But for every person who escaped that horrible fate, he witnessed hundreds of others who were shot, beaten, hanged or gunned down in mass executions at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp […]
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Young Jews, aging survivors walk March of the Living to Birkenau
Organizers of the March of the Living said about 10,000 people attended Thursday’s event, including 150 Holocaust survivors and members of Israel’s parliament. Many draped themselves in Israeli flags. Participants walking the three kilometers (1.9 miles) from Auschwitz’s barracks knelt to pray and light candles on the railway tracks that once brought Jews, Roma and […]
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Alan Dershowitz: Europe’s old (and new) hells remind us of Israel’s importance
I just returned from a week-long journey through hell! It began with a visit to the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps in Poland, as a participant of the March of the Living, following a conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg laws and the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials. My week was consumed […]
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Maccabi GB does March of the Living 2016: The full blog
Prologue Nathan and Talia represented Streetwise GB – a partnership project between the CST & Maccabi GB – on the March of the Living trip from 1st-6th May 2016, as part of a delegation of 240 UK participants. The mission of the trip was to challenge a new generation of Jews with one of the […]
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March of the Living: Bringing Resurrection from Holocaust Death
It’s called the March of the Living. Thousands of young people meet in Poland and Israel each year to learn about the Holocaust from where it happened. And the lesson takes on much more meaning in the giant classroom of reality. “We decided to take the ‘whys’ from the classroom and to really confront what […]
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