Survivor Speaker Series with Gabriella Y. Karin

International March of the Living continuing survivor speaker series with Gabriella Y. Karin was held on Thursday, January 20, 2022. Click on the video player below to watch the program. Gabriella is a survivor of the Holocaust and has dedicated her life to Holocaust education as a docent and speaker

The rise of antisemitism has been tied to rising tide of intolerance

By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Peter Kraus was born on 5 June 1942 in Budapest.  His parents, Imre and Clara, prior to the start of WWII, lived in formerly Hungarian town of Szabadka – which became the Yugoslavian town of Subotica when Europe was carved up by

“I am deeply worried that in 100 years the Holocaust will be a blip in history”

By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Rosette Goldstein, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor from the United States, is alive today because, during World War II, a French farmer and his family allowed her to hide in their home. “Monsieur and Madame Martin and the girls were very good to

“Seeing people wearing a yellow star today is terrible! I had to wear mine as a kid. It was an offensive symbol, that segregated us from society”.

Holocaust survivor Luis Opatowski Goldberg, in conversation with Alina Garber, March of the Living, Mexico Luis Opatowski Goldberg, was born in Brussels just a few months before the war began. Luis was hidden in a church and served as an altar boy. Later he was taken to the Stutthof labor

Werner Reich, a survivor of Mengele’s experiments and the death march in Auschwitz: “The Holocaust can happen again if we are not observant and if we don’t focus on humanity being taught to be ethical.”

Werner is a docent at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Werner Reich was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1927. In 1933, his father lost his job as an engineer due to anti-Jewish laws. The family emigrated to Zagreb,

I am worried that in 50 or 100 years history will be re-written untruthfully.

Sally Wasserman, Canadian Holocaust survivor By Eli Rubinstein, Educational Director, International March of the Living Sally Wasserman was born in Poland in 1935. When she was eight years old, she was smuggled out of the Ghetto and hidden by two Polish Righteous Among the Nations, Eva and Mikolaj Turkin. Sally

Without history, there will be no memory, and without memory, there will be no future.

Holocaust survivor Max Eisen discusses the future of Holocaust Memory By Eli Rubinstein, Educational Director, International March of the Living Max Eisen was born in March 1929 into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Slovakia. Eisen lived through two death marches before being liberated on May 6, 1945. Eisen attributes his survival,

‘Do not ever be complacent! Do not ever be apathetic or indifferent to emerging evil!’

‘Education of our Jewish heritage and history is the best weapon to counteract Holocaust trivialization and denial.’ By Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Born to Jewish parents who operated a delicatessen in the heart of Bratislava (Slovakia), Gabriella Karin was just 11 when she and her family were

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israeli Holocaust survivors speak out against the growing trend of Holocaust trivialization and comparisons to Covid-19 measures

Dita Kraus, Vera Krieger, and Aliza Landau are participating in the #CantBeCompared campaign initiated by the International March of the Living and the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Dita Kraus: “It is impossible to compare the Holocaust to anything. The Holocaust was unique, nothing is like the industrial-scale extermination of people

“There are very few survivors left, and I want the world to know that there was a Holocaust”

Estelle Nadel, Holocaust survivor – in conversation with Monise Neumann, International March of the Living Polish-born Estelle Nadel was only five years old when World War II began.  The war started immediately for her and all the three million Jews in the country. She still remembers wearing the yellow star