March of the Living, the international educational program that began in 1988, has brought approximately 90,000 teenagers, accompanied by Jewish educators, social workers and survivors, to Poland for a week. Critics worry it has become a \”March of the Living Dead\”
\”Zayde, what are those faded numbers on your arm?\” Without completely understanding, I quickly realized that I had revived painful memories of Auschwitz as tears slowly ran down my grandfather\’s cheek. Little did I know, back when I was 6 years old, that my grandfather\’s ability to tell his story would change my life.
Tante Mina sat on her couch and slowly tore away the wrapping. When the paper fell and she saw the porcelain doll her nieces had molded, painted and dressed for her, her breath caught in her throat and she let out a little gasp. As Tante Mina continued to stare at the doll, Mali, my mother, told her 81-year-old aunt about the next step.
In the backlot at Universal Studios, somewhere between the lake where Jaws lurks and the courthouse square where Michael J. Fox sped back to the future, researchers in nondescript trailers are finishing up one of the most ambitious projects involving the Holocaust.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) recently recognized Steven Spielberg\’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Washington, D.C., by bestowing on it the Boxer Excellence in Education Award.
We can\’t speak for our entire congregation, but Rabbi Karen Deitch\’s article (\”SWF Rabbi,\” April 1) did not embarrass us (Letters, April 29). We invite you to attend one of our erev Shabbat services when Deitch is officiating.
The last time Trudy Spira was in Auschwitz, she was 12 years old. The day of liberation \”is my second birthday — I was reborn on that day,\” said Spira, who came from Venezuela with her son, Ernesto, 48, to show him the place that robbed her of her childhood.
One morning in April 2002, CNN Frankfurt bureau chief Chris Burns stepped into Emanuel Weintraub\’s Paris apartment near the Eiffel Tower, took a look around, and said, \”We thought you\’d be packing. Where are the suitcases?\”
Nandor Markovic was lying in the gutter, awaiting death. He had already seen his best friend shot in the head, but Markovic could not take another step on the German-led march in 1945.
With 15 years of Jewish day school education under his belt, Marc Marrero had a plan for college.
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