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This section features the stories of Holocaust survivors who have participated on the March of the Living.
 Reflections on March of the Living 2005 by Vera Schiff
The March of the Living program I was privileged to take part in was different from those routinely attended by high school students. We accompanied forty educators, men and women who wanted to see and learn first hand of the horrible history of the Holocaust. None of the participants found it to be an easy experience. ... |
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 Reflections by David Shentow on MOL 2002
I was born on April 29, 1925 in Warsaw, Poland. Due to waves of anti-Jewish pogroms, my parents moved us to Antwerp, Belgium, when I was 6 weeks old. They had planned to stay in Antwerp just long enough to save up the money needed to buy a passage either to Montreal or to New York City, where my two uncles, both master bakers, had found steady employment.
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Download an interview with Morris Faintuch
Interview with Morris Faintuch, MOL 2004 Survivor Participant
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Reflections by Mike Englishman on MOL 2004
 In the beginning of 1943, I was arrested by the Gestapo. From there I was put into different jails twice and five different concentration camps. I was liberated by American Troops in concentration camp "Dora" (Hitler's secret weapon).
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Reflections by George Herczeg on MOL 2004
as told to Eli Rubenstein
 You see, in 10-15 years from now, none of us survivors will be here to tell the truth. So if these young students don't come on the trip and stand up and tell about what happened, about what they saw and learned, then the deniers of the Holocaust will win.
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Reflections on MOL 2004
by Bronka Chudy Krygier
 I was not prepared to be a partisan. On September 1, 1939, I was happy. The next day all, whom I knew and loved, were condemned to die -- simply because we were Jewish. This led to six years of torture, loss, and destruction. Leaving Poland in 1946 with a broken heart and spirit, I was orphaned with no place to go.
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From Terezin to Montreal
by Liselotte Ivry, MOL 1999, 2001, 2004
 There was great sadness and despair in the camp. We had to say good-bye to all the people with whom we spent close to seven months, knowing their fate. Our senses by that time were very numb and that was the only way we were able to cope with this horror.
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From Forced Death March to Liberation
by Judy Cohen, MOL 1998
 I have absolutely no idea how I, along with the few others, survived. I cannot even remember everything. Our minds were clouded from starvation and hopelessness.
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 The Death March
by Max (Tibor) Eisen, MOL 1998
As the march continued we turned black from frost. All we had on our bodies were the striped prisoners' garb. We had no gloves. We had little caps, but nothing to protect our ears. I managed to find a paper cement bag which I put under my top. This helped a lot. As in my days in Auschwitz, to be resourceful meant life.
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 Anita Ekstein: A Profile
by Anita Helfgott Ekstein, MOL 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004
I was a child of seven when the Nazis came to our town in Poland. We had been occupied by the Soviets for nearly the first two years of the war. We were taken to a ghetto in a larger town ...
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 Ann Kazimirski In Profile
by Ann Kazimirski, MOL 1997
We were in the ghetto when the third and final pogrom broke out on 13 December 1943. This third Aktion was to accomplish the goal of making our town, Vladimir Volynski, Judenrein - cleansed of Jews. German soldiers overran the ghetto and shot Jews at random. Many were killed while trying to escape by climbing the barbed wire fence.
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