"My Shtetl - My Town” Book Project Sponsored by PJCRP. Learn about “My Shtetl - My Town”, a book of award-winning essays, with contributions from Polish high school students & Jewish students from around the world. Read about the project and submit your own essay.

NEW: JOIN THE 2010 CANADIAN
ADULT MARCH OF THE LIVING MISSION!
Learn more.

National Young Adult Registration:
Oct. 5-Nov. 6, 2009. Open to young adults ages 21 to 30 from across Canada. Click here to apply.


March of the Living Canada expresses its sorrow
over the passing of

Mayer Schondorf z”l
Holocaust Survivor & March of the Living Chaperone

Mayer Schondorf, together with his wife Rena, imparted to thousands of Jewish youth the history of the Shoah and the importance of Jewish values and Israel, lessons that will remain with them for a lifetime.

May the family find consolation in the legacy of his good works and in the many young people whose lives were touched by his courageous efforts.

May the family be comforted among the mourners of Zion.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Montreal March of the Living Scholarship Fund. Call (514) 345-6449.


Watch videos from the 2009 March of the Living:
View
videos from Poland | View videos from Israel

Above: Meet Czeslawa Zak, a heroic Polish woman, who together with her parents, saved 15 Jews during the Holocaust. Canadian students met with her on Wednesday, April 23rd, on the 2009 March of the Living.


Memoirs By Canadian Holocaust Survivors Sought

Please visit the sites for:
The Azrieli Foundation (also read article National Post articles about Survivors Dr. Ruth and Rachel Shtibel)
or
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

Pictured at right: Holocaust survivor Rachel Shtibel holds the violin that once held her own life story. It belonged to her uncle, who buried it before the war. Ms. Shtibel came into possession of the violin after two years in captivity and found inside it her baby pictures and photos of the uncle she later learned was her biological father. Her memoir is part of a boxed set. Photo by Tory Zimmerman for National Post.


View Elie Wiesel's speech, given April 22, 1990, during the March of the Living Yom Hashoah Ceremony amid the ruins of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Mac version | PC version

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on the importance of the March of the Living: "The March of the Living is THE most important educational program for young people today ... it should be a program for Jews and non-Jews alike. I believe the day will come when thousands of Jews and non-Jews will march together, and will learn together, and will understand together, and will never forget ... together." View Ehud Olmert's speech.

Plus: View Ehud Olmert's speech at the 1990 March of the Living ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau.


Read speech by Tony Comper, co-founder of FAST (Fighting Anti-Semitism Together) (PDF) And listen as Juliet Karugahe, a Rwandan Canadian, speaks on the importance of traveling to Poland

View the MOL commercial that's currently airing on Canadian television.
If you hear a witness ... you become a witness.

View Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's speech on the importance of the March of the Living

And view a March of the Living Documentary

View a video excerpt of Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler speaking to 2005 March of the Living participants, at Warsaw University on May 7, 2005, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day. Small | Large


Download Yad Vashem March of the Living Educational Materials:
English | French | Polish | Spanish

Read The lesson I learned at Auschwitz, an essay by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.


The Revival of Jewish Life in Poland: Is it Really Happening
May 11, 2009, in Toronto. Learn more.


Listen to a BBC report on the March of the Living.


Follow the news reports about the 2009 March from around the world.


Read Speech given by U.S. President Barack Obama during the 2009 Holocaust Days of Remembrance Ceremony.


On Sunday, April 19, 2009, the Hallmark Hall of Fame paid tribute to Polish social worker Irena Sendler, who is often called the "Female Schlinder".
Learn more.


Download Just a Shoe, a powerful and eloquent new work by March of the Living participant Stevi Golden Plotnik.


Read letter from Dr. Shmuel Rosenman, Chairman, March of the Living

Read speech by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in honour of Israel’s 60h Anniversary

See/Listen to highlights from the 2008 March of the Living Ceremony on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), May 1, 2008.

View selected images from the 2008 March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Yom Hashoah.

View selected images from the 2008 March of the Living in Jerusalem on Yom Ha'atzmaut.

View photos from the 2008 Coast-to-Coast contingent.
View photos from the 2008 Montreal contingent.
View photos from the 2008 Toronto contingent.

'March of the Living Pledge' signed on on Holocaust Remembrance Day by 10,000 participants in the 2008 March. Read more.

Read the news worldwide about the 2008 March.


Read news articles about the 2007 March of the Living



April 7-22, 2010
View photos of the 2009
Toronto Student Contingent now.
View photos of the 2009
Montreal Student Contingent now.