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Read news articles about the 2007 March of the Living

Hear podcasts from2006
March of the Living Canada:
Podcasts from Poland
Podcasts from Israel

Watch this space in the coming weeks for details about the 2008 March of the Living.

MONTREAL NEWS: View photos from the Montreal student contingent from 2007.

TORONTO NEWS: View photos from the Toronto student contingent from 2007.

View Elie Wiesel's speech, given April 22, 1990, during the March of the Living Yom Hashoah Ceremony amid the ruins of Auschwitz-Birkenau
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The next March of the Living program will take place from April 28 to May 12, 2008.

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.

photo: Stephen Epstein / Ponkawonka.com

Plus: View Ehud Olmert's speech at the 1990 March of the Living ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
View the 2007
MOL commercial that's currently airing on Canadian television.

I f you hear a witness ... you become a witness.

Read speech by Tony Comper,
co-founder of FAST (Fighting Anti-Semitism Together) (PDF)

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

And listen as Juliet Karugahe, a Rwandan Canadian, speaks on the importance of traveling to Poland.

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

And view a March of the Living Documentary
Yad Vashem urges people to be a part of this critical effort to recover names of Holocaust victims, while those who remember them are still with us.

Find out more about the project and then join the effort.
View "The Century's First Genocide", a New York Times interactive feature.

The genocide in Darfur requires a more robust intervention by the international community to protect innocent civilians and assure humanitarian aid safe passage. An ICG  (International Crisis Group) overview.