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Lily Ebert and Walter Bingham at her home in London. Photo by Adam Lawrence/March of the Living UK.

Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London

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In an emotional encounter, two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met last week in London, retracing their harrowing journeys through life. Germany-born Kindertransport survivor Walter Bingham, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s...
The seven Holocaust survivors who attended the 2022 International March of the Living, April 28, 2022. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

International March of the Living: Watch

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Thousands of participants from across the globe were set on Tuesday to walk down a 3-kilometer path leading from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Remembrance Day—Yom Hashoah—as part of the International March of the Living. Since...
Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer addresses attendees at the annual International March of the Living gala in Miami on Tuesday. Courtesy.

Ron Dermer lays out priorities, including ensuring that ‘evil regime in Tehran’ can’t destroy...

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Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer is back in the U.S., telling a gala audience in Miami that Jerusalem will be Washington’s most important ally in the 21st century. Dermer, a former Israeli ambassador to...
Young participants in March of the Living at the Auschwitz concentration camp site. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away

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The International March of the Living will take place in Poland on April 28 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Despite the ability to gather in person, organizers say they now face a...

Massachusetts teens offered $2,000 scholarship for March of Living trip to Poland, Israel

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A Massachusetts-based Jewish group is offering a $2,000 scholarship for local Jewish high school juniors and seniors who qualify for an upcoming March of the Living visit to Israel and Poland in an effort...
From left: Holocaust survivors at Bergen-Belsen. Harry (Chaim) Olmer, Mala Tribich, Eve Kugler and Alfred Garwood. Photo by Sam Churchill.

March of the Living UK focuses on nuance as it brings delegation to Germany...

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GERMANY—The two provocateurs who approached the group at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany at the end of October knew what they were doing. What they probably didn’t realize was that they helped cement...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, devoid of those participating in the annual March of the Living to mark Yom Hashoah, April 20-21, 2020. Credit: Marcin Kozlowski, March of the Living.

Why are Jews and Poles still arguing about the Holocaust?

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It’s a controversy in which there are no heroes, as well as one that in a more rational world no one would bother with. That’s the only way to describe the increasingly complicated brawl...
Former President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, listen as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci delivers remarks during a coronavirus update briefing on April 16, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks.

March of the Living awards Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘Moral Courage in Medicine Award’

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To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year begins on the evening of April 7, International March of the Living, together with the Maimonides Institute for Ethics and the Holocaust, the Miller Center at...
Israel's President Reuven Rivlin in front of the virtual gates to Auschwitz as part of the 2021 March of the Living online event. Credit: Office of the President for March of the Living.

March of the Living virtual event to honor medical profession, past and present

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The International March of the Living will hold a virtual march on Holocaust Remembrance Day to be led by Holocaust survivors and Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Jewish Agency chair Isaac Herzog, Keren-Kayemet...

March of the Living launches global interfaith initiative to commemorate Kristallnacht: #LetThereBeLight

On November 9, 1938, a two-day pogrom began during which the Nazis burned more than 1,400 synagogues and Jewish institutions in Germany and Austria on ‘Kristallnacht’ (The Night of Broken Glass), a critical moment...