March of the Living

'Never let hatred define you – be proud of who you are'

Amid Rising campus antisemitism, 98-year-old Holocaust survivor sends message to Jewish students worldwide

Holocaust Survivor Nate Leipciger on the 2025 March of the Living
Students from 14 colleges came together through the 2026 Two Museums Program

Two museums, one mission: Preparing young leaders to confront antisemitism and racism

Elie Wiesel at 1990 March of the Living ceremony in Birkenau with Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness

Elie Wiesel at the 1990 March of the Living

I was there


Yad Vashem gets it, why can’t we? -opinion

Yad Vashem understood that even when discussing the Holocaust, we can’t just talk about what they did to us. Certainly, antisemitism can’t be the main theme of Jewish identity.

 THEN-PRESIDENT Reuven Rivlin visits the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, 2014, when it was newly built

Marching across Europe to mark 80 years since the onset of the murder of European Jewry

 From left to right: Yacov Livne, Israel Ambassador to Poland, Monika Krawczyk (Director of JHI), Minister Wojciech Kolarski, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of Poland, Ms. Rachel Kesselman (Radomsko Kesselman Museum), Michel Gourary (Director of EMOTL).

Holocaust in Latvia Marked with Special March of the Living

 March of the living Latvia

March of the Living: The ceremony in pictures

The March of the Living is happening this year, in-person, with 2,500 participants from 25 countries.

 March of the living

Holocaust denial still common in the Arab world, but views are changing

Almost a hundred Arab youth from Israel also took part in the March of the Living this year.

 Polish President Andrzej Duda and Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg attend the annual International "March of the Living" through the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, in Oswiecim, Poland April 28, 2022.

Arab-Israeli youth march with Holocaust survivors, fly Israeli flag

A delegation of the Atidna youth movement set out for Poland to march with Holocaust survivors and walk through the camps.

 Delegation of Arab-Israeli youth at Auschwitz, Poland, March 28, 2022.

Polish president to join March of the Living

This year's March of the Living is taking place in the shadow of the war in Ukraine.

 Poland's President Andrzej Duda attends a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Nazi occupants in Warsaw, Poland July 31, 2021.

Next generation ready to bear Holocaust survivors’ memory at March of the Living

Only eight Holocaust survivors attended the March of the Living this year, causing concern that there may be none in the next few years.

Eitan Neishlos is seen hugging a Muslim man at the entrance gate the Auschwitz concentration camp on the day of March of the Living.

Youth movement to send first Arab-Israeli group on March of the Living

The Arab-Israeli teens, from grades 11 and 12, attended three preparation sessions for the trip to Poland.

 Cedric Gefen with the Australia delegation in March of the Living

Holocaust survivors pass the torch to third generation in March of the Living

March of the Living was put on a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, but this year it will take place on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR Mala Tribich, part of the UK March of the Living family.