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The March in the News
This year, March of the Living UK attracted national press interest, with many journalists participating on the trip.
Walk With The Survivors Campaign
Every year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, March of the Living UK arranges for Holocaust survivors to lead thousands on a 3km walk from the gates of Auschwitz to the gas chambers at Birkenau, where over a million victims were murdered by the Nazis. This year, with travel to Poland not possible as a result of the Covid-19 travel restrictions, we brought the walk closer to home.
Kristallnacht 2020 Campaign
On the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht (9th Nov 2020), March of the Living UK & International ran a Global Interfaith Kristallnacht Campaign - projecting messages of hoping onto Jerusalem’s Old City walls and on the Coventry Cathedral in the UK.
March of the Living Delegation to Germany
For the first time since Covid the UK March of the Living held a delegation to Germany, led by 4 Holocaust survivors and 90 participants.
‘Nothing prepared me for our journey to Auschwitz’
Remona Aly | Times Educational Supplement
The March of the Living would have marked the Holocaust today – one Muslim writer recalls the power of last year's event
In the corona age, Holocaust memory has never been so important
Scott Saunders | Jewish News
Why visiting Auschwitz doesn’t have to be a harrowing experience
Darren Richman | Independent
Can humour help heal Holocaust survivors? Maybe, says Darren Richman. As the ‘third generation survivor’ visits the concentration camps of Poland, he finds that comedy can be a useful shield.
‘Sikh’ means ‘to learn’, and that’s what I did on the March of the Living
Jasvir Singh | The Jewish Chronicle
Jasvir Singh explains what went through his mind as he took part in the memorial walk to Auschwitz.
My faith was strengthened searching for meaning in the horror of the Shoah
Margaret Cave | Jewish News
Margaret joined the largest ever British delegation to March of the Living of nearly 300 participants across 9 buses. The group were privileged to be joined by 8 survivors. This was the first year it included a group of senior British faith leaders, and here is her experience of the emotional trip to Poland.
I’m not Jewish – which is why I had to join the March of the Living
Lord Shinkwin | The Jewish Chronicle
Lord Shinkwin, Conservative peer, explains why his bond with the surgeon who saved his life compelled him to take part