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Holocaust survivors shaken by mezuzahs torn down in Toronto

Steve Linde — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:02:26 +0000

The recent removal of mezuzahs from a Toronto residential building housing Holocaust survivors has deepened fears about rising antisemitism, striking at what residents say is the most intimate place of all: their homes. For the second time in a month, mezuzahs were ripped from apartment doors in a residential building in Toronto where several Holocaust […]

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80 years after liberation, Holocaust survivors lead March of the Living in Hungary

JNS — Mon, 12 May 2025 22:08:57 +0000

Eighty years after the fall of Nazi Germany and the liberation of concentration camps across Europe, 60 Holocaust survivors led more than 5,000 participants through the streets of Budapest on Sunday in a solemn and powerful March of the Living, commemorating the victims of one of history’s darkest chapters. The march honored the memory of […]

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March of the Living set to kick off at Auschwitz

JNS — Mon, 06 May 2024 08:12:02 +0000

The 36th International March of the Living was set to take place today, with thousands traversing the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust and in honour of those who survived. The March renews the call of “Never Again,” a vow broken on Oct. 7, when the State of Israel […]

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Jewish poet, paratrooper Hannah Senesh honoured in Budapest

David Isaac - JNS — Sun, 05 May 2024 08:05:40 +0000

Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was honoured on Friday in a ceremony at her birthplace in Budapest, Hungary. The Jewish paratrooper and poet was executed at age 23 “not far from here,” Revital Yakin, deputy CEO of March of the Living, said during the event. Senesh (1921-44), who was captured after parachuting into Yugoslavia during World War […]

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Centenarian Holocaust survivors meet in London

JNS — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:49:11 +0000

In an emotional encounter, two 100-year-old Holocaust survivors met last week in London, retracing their harrowing journeys through life. Germany-born Kindertransport survivor Walter Bingham, who holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the world’s oldest working journalist, met Hungarian-born Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert, also 100, at her London home last week on the […]

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Lithuanian, Jewish leaders mark 80th year since liquidation of Vilnius Ghetto

JNS — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:16:39 +0000

Official ceremonies on Sept. 21 commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto in Lithuania during World War II, part of the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of Lithuanian Jews. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, along with other senior government officials and those associated with the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of […]

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March of the Living resumes in person with only eight Holocaust survivors

JNS — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 05:42:12 +0000

The International March of the Living will resume in person for the first time in two years but with a reduced capacity, due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and only eight Holocaust survivors participating. Organizers made the announcement last week in the United Kingdom House of Lords. The procession along the path leading from […]

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Holocaust survivors return to Germany

J-Wire News Service — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:16:22 +0000

A March of the Living delegation from Britain has embarked on its first educational journey since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Athletes Say NO to Antisemitism

Agencies — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 05:52:19 +0000

To coincide with the Olympic Games, International March of the Living, Maccabi World Union and the Maccabiah are launching a global campaign to combat the exponential rise of antisemitism around the world.

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Ambassador Mitch Fifield meets President Herzog

J-Wire Newsdesk — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 06:38:51 +0000

President Isaac Herzog met Monday at Beit HaNassi in Jerusalem with a delegation of foreign ambassadors to the US and UN visiting Israel this week.

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