MARCH OF THE LIVING DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROJECT
Stage 1: Short documentary films focusing on individual Holocaust survivors’ stories and experiences
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Our Liberation: Stories Of Holocaust Survivors’ Road to Freedom
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the site of the greatest mass murder in human history, where over 1 million of Hitler’s 6 million Jewish victims perished. As the world commemorates the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the film tells the moving stories of six Holocaust survivors,…
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Howard Chandler and Martin Baranek: Homecoming
Survivors Howard Chandler and Martin Baranek visit the Polish town where they grew up.
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Max Eisen: A Hanging in Auschwitz
Survivor Max Eisen recounts the infamous hanging of four Jewish women in Auschwitz.
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Miriam Zeigler: My Liberation
Survivor Miriam Zeigler travels back to Auschwitz for the first time since her liberation 70 years ago.
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Mordechai Ronen: My Story of Survival
Survivor Mordechai Ronen travels back to Poland and tells his story of survival as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Stefania Sitbon: Hiding like Animals
Survivor Stefania Sitbon travels back to Poland to show her daughters where her family was hidden during the war: The Warsaw Zoo.
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Angela Orosz: Child of Auschwitz
Angela Orosz travels to Poland to visit her birth place: the notorious Auschwitz Death Camp.
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70 Years After Liberation: A Warning to Future Generations
On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, five Canadian Holocaust survivors who have participated in the March of the Living share their memories and reflections of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the meaning of this important anniversary.
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Anita Ekstein: I was a Hidden Child
Anita Ekstein, along with other survivors convene at a conference in Warsaw, Poland, to tell their stories of survival.
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Esther Fairbloom: Courage of the Heart
Esther Fairbloom, a hidden child during the war, returns to Poland for the first time with the March of the Living and shares her story with the group.
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Max Iland’s Bar Mitzvah
At 82 years old, Holocaust survivor Max Iland finally celebrates his Bar Mitzvah at the top of Masada.
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Miriam Zakrojczyk: A Holocaust Survivor Returns Home for the First Time
Holocaust survivor Miriam Zakrojczyk returns to her hometown in Poland for the first time since the war.
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FMR. Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird
John Baird, Canadian MP, Minister of Foreign Affairs meets with Canadian group on the March of the Living in Warsaw Poland. Holocaust survivor Sidney Zoltak thanks the minister for supporting Holocaust remembrance and education in Canada.
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Sydney Zoltak: Reunions
Born in Poland, Sidney Zoltak was eight years at the outbreak of World War II. He and his family survived with the help of a sympathetic Christian Polish family. In 2014 Sydney Zoltak and his son Larry return to Poland with the March of the Living to reunite with the Polish rescuer who saved his…
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March of the Living Promotional Video
The annual March of the Living program brings thousands of young people from around the world each year on Holocaust Remembrance Day to Auschwitz-Birkenau to honour the memory of Holocaust victims and to pledge to build a better world for all humanity. Following their trip to Poland, where they visit other places of Nazi German…