Auschwitz-Birkenau

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A must-see exhibit for all ages: ‘Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away.’
Shiryn GhermezianMay 31, 2019
Outside: a German-made Model 2 freight car used for the deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in occupied Poland. Inside: 20 galleries with more than 700 original objects and 400 photographs.
A man inspects a restored World War II-era German freight car as part of the Museum of Jewish Heritage's exhibit: “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.” Credit: Museum of Jewish Heritage via Facebook.
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Alex TraimanMay 6, 2019
The Chabad model for perpetuating memories of the Holocaust
As survivors become fewer in number, there is no choice but to pass the torch—the light—to present and future generations to perpetuate their stories, memories, teachings and understandings.
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Alex TraimanMay 2, 2019
March of the Living transcends distinctions to provide a deeply meaningful Jewish experience
Knowing that the enemies of the Jewish people did not distinguish between Jews—affiliated or assimilated, religious or secular, citizen or immigrant—will give pause to those searching to expose cultural or political distinctions today.
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March of the Living founder: ‘The only thing worse than Auschwitz is the world forgetting Auschwitz’
May 2, 2019
The ceremony included the lighting of six torches, each one honoring a different group of Holocaust heroes.
Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, founder and co-chairman of March of the Living, is flanked by Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon; Jewish Agency chair Isaac Herzog; U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman; and a delegation of U.S. ambassadors and White House representatives headed by Friedman, including former Israeli Chief Rabbi Israel Lau, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, at the entrance to Birkenau during the 31st annual March of the Living. Credit: March of the Living.
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First-ever official delegation from US takes part in March of the Living in Poland
May 2, 2019
“There is no administration, no president, no secretary of state that have committed themselves to this extent to fight anti-Semitism, to protect the Jewish people and to support the State of Israel,” said Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr.
Members of the first-ever official U.S. government delegation to the March of the Living hold the American flag up at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland on May 2, 2019. Credit: March of the Living.
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Delegation of UN ambassadors participates in March of Living
May 2, 2019
The delegation, which includes envoys from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe, did the nearly two-mile walk from the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz to Birkenau on as a tribute to all victims of the Holocaust and a call for an end to anti-Semitism.
The delegation of U.N. ambassadors from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe taking part in the 2019 March of the Living in Poland on May 2, 2019. Credit: Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations.
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WATCH: 2019 March of the Living
May 2, 2019
Hosted by JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman, more than 10,000 Jewish and non-Jewish youth from 40 countries and dozens of Holocaust survivors and dignitaries from around the globe will participate in the 31st annual International March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau.
Thousands of young people from around the world walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the sites of former Nazi death camps, during the 2017 “March of the Living” in Poland. Credit: Drew Jacobson via Facebook.
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