1. What is motivating you to take part in the 2024 March of the Living?

Both my parents and both of my siblings participated in the March of the Living in past years and always reflected positively back on the experience and pushed me to participate in it when I was a senior. Now, with everything that is happening to the Jewish people around the world, I believe this experience has never been more timely and every Jewish teen should be educated on what the March of the Living is teaching to help their understanding of Jewish history.

2. After the events of October 7, 2023, is there still a reason to have hope? In light of October 7th and the dramatic rise of antisemitism, do you fear for the future of the world?

My Jewish identity and my Jewish community is very important to me. My high school is Jewish and is very important to me and is the community that I relate the most to, so becoming more educated on the history of the Jewish people is very important to me.

3. What does the 80th anniversary of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry mean to you? What kinds of feelings does this somber commemoration evoke in you?

It is really sad to see the hate that Jewish people are getting around the world and the number of ignorant people who are producing hate towards others for no apparent reason.

4. What do you want the students to know about your family who perished in the Holocaust?

I hope to get more first-hand experience of what the Holocaust was really like for the Jewish people. It is one thing to learn about the horrific experience of the Holocaust in class, but having the opportunity to visit these places and see with my own eyes what happened is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that I am very grateful to have.

5. Why do you continue to educate about the Holocaust? What is your most important message or lesson for the students?

I believe that it will take a good amount of time for what I will see and learn to sink in, but once it does, I plan to continue sharing this experience with other people around me and help educate people who do not know about the Holocaust. I will have more knowledge about the Holocaust than most other people and I plan to share it with as many people as I can so that they can become educated as well.