Investing in Holocaust Education

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International March of the Living expanding Holocaust education in the Arab world

After a very successful Kristallnacht program at the UAE, this week Deputy CEO Revital Yakin Krakovsky and Senior advisor Greg Masel participated at the Jerusalem Post investment conference in Marrakech, Morocco.

At the summit Revital Krakovsky encouraged the audience: “Invest in Holocaust education for the future of all mankind”. Also participating in the panel discussion were: Eitan Neishlos, of the Neishlos Foundation, a strategic partner to the International March of the Living and Wojtek Soczewica, Director-General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.

Introducing “Soul to Sole” in Morocco a joint project of the March of the Living and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation to restore 8,000 children’s shoes at Auschwitz that are rapidly decomposing.

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Holocaust survivor Renee Salt was born in Poland in 1929. She arrived at Auschwitz at the age of 15. These are her memories:

"I arrived at Auschwitz in cattle trucks without any food, water or air. When we arrived we heard dogs barking. The Germans opened the doors and I saw an army of Gestapo and SS men, all heavily armed. All around us was illuminated electrified fencing. My father jumped first and after I jumped, I never saw him again. Without a kiss of goodbye, he disappeared.

"You are in Auschwitz-Birkenau, this is the place where people are being taken straight to the gas chambers".

After the selection, we were pushed to the shower room without windows. We were all saying prayers, hugging and kissing one another as we thought this was our last hour. However, instead of gas, water came through. We were the lucky ones, they still needed us for hard labor."

Renee survived.

Of the over 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust, more than 232,000 of them were murdered in Auschwitz. Children who once laughed, played, and loved. 8,000 shoes, in which they came, are now almost all that remain of their memory, but they are in danger of disappearing forever. They are in desperate and immediate need of repair and conservation.

Click here and join the International March of the Living in the global campaign to preserve and restore the shoes of the children in Auschwitz.

Together we will preserve their memory and defend history.

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Commemorating the Holocaust as the generation of survivors passes into history

Seventy-seven years after the end of World War II, as the generation of Holocaust survivors is fast disappearing, what remains to remind the world of the tragedy? The Jerusalem Post spoke with Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, chairman of the International March of the Living, and Wojtek Soczewica, Director-General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, who described the efforts to commemorate the Holocaust, as the generation of survivors inevitably passes into history.

Read the full story at the Jerusalem Post

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