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March connects generations
Students and survivors join togetlier for commeniiorative annual event.
KATHARINE HAMER EDITOR
More than 18,000 people from aroimd the world - including more than 1,000 Canadians-remembered Holocaust victims on a march from the Polish town of Oswiedm (Auschwitz) to the site of the Birkenau concentration camp last week.
The event was part of March of the Living - an annual pilgrimage made mostly by young people seeking a connection to their Jewish roots. Canadian participants attended under the aegis of UIA (United Israel Appeal) Federations Canada. The goal of the program is to unite different faith and ethnic groups to honor Holocaust victims and survivors. Multi- cultural student groups, teachers and a number of politicians also took part Many of the participants went on to spend a week in IsraeL
Among those who participated in the march were three young people from Vancouver. They shared their experiences
of the event with the Bulletin.
Bram Neuman's grandfather, Otto Farkas, is a Holocaust survivor from Debrecen, Hungary. Nemnan, a student at the University of British Columbia, said his visit to Poland was Vciy moving ... as a Jewish person and grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, I was already exposed to the Holocaust But being here, in Poland, on the March of the living, you put yourself in the mindset of the people who suffered.
"Standing in the barracks and the gas chambers, you realize how killing was an industry for the Nazis. You realize how they how dehimMuiized people—how they removed their hair, confiscated their crutches... how they took away their human identity. They had it down to a sdencc."
I^ra Mintzberg is also a UBC student Her grandparents made it to Canada before the war. Having been on the march, she said, "I can now take on the responsibility to retell these stories of
the Holocaust to others, to the children that I work with in camps, to anyone who has an interest in the Holocaust and even to anyone who denies the Holocaust. By going on this trip, I have become a living testimony to the history of the Holocaust"
"My most mcaningfiil moment on the trip occurred with oiu- survivor, Esther Rath," said Andrea Sorin of Richmond (now a history student at the University of Victoria). "She was having trouble lifting the memorial candles for her murdered family members in the crematoria in the rubble in Auschwitz-Birkenau, so I helped her light the candles in honor of her relatives.
"This was her first time back to Poland and I think her message to us was this: 1 have overcome some much and I am so happy you are all here with me.' I think it made her feci proud to be Jewish, to be alive and to be here with all these different people." □
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