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| Name: | Dr. Norman Weinberg |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.pjcrp.org |
| Comments: | Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project (PJCRP) is interested in supporting MOL. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | No |
| Name: | HW |
| Comments: | Sara.
A month ago, i travelled with a Canadian delegation on the March of the Living. Though i swore i wouldnt, my mind has drifted away from remembering my experience to my utmost ability. Thank you for your recollections of your journey, for you have inspired me to record my own. Am Yisrael Chai. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Abe |
| Comments: | Hi Sara,
Like everyone said, thanks for sharing your experiences! It's been a long time since you put this website up, so not sure if you still check your guestbook. I also went to the MOTL in 1994, I'm originally from Mexico City, now living in Canada. When I went to the MOTL I went with the group from Israel (the Latin American subdivision because I spent a year in Israel before this trip)... Even though it was sad, I felt good seing your pictures and remembering what being 18 while on the MOTL felt like. The 1994 generation should get together and make a bigger website about the trip, with dairy entries and pictures per country... so we can all see that even though we might come from different countries now (South Africa, France, Australia, Mexico, Canada, etc.) there is something much greater that brings us together, BEING JEWISH!!! and for 15 days the heart of every jew that goes through the experiences of the MOTL beat and feel as one. Lets keep marching FOR life!!! Abe abrahamworno@hotmail.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Emily |
| Comments: | Hi Sara, As you no doubt know all too well, today is the 12th anniversary of our March. As a fellow 1994 alum, I wanted to say thanks for having your pictures up on line. It was a memory I needed today. Take care! |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Bob and Julie Neaderthal |
| Comments: | Sara,
We enjoyed your photographs. My wife and I are going on the March next month. I am a physician and my cousin Fred Guttman is rabbi in Greensboro SC who has taken groups on MOTL for many years. He has asked me to go along as the doctor and chaparone and my wife and I are really looking forward to it. Your sharing your photos and experience has helped us both. Bob and Julie |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Candace |
| Homepage URL: | http://candacesalmon.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | Hi Sara-
Beautiful page. I just got back from Israel, and am hoping to go to Poland in May on the March of Remembrance and Hope (same type of program, but for non-Jewish students). Your recollections are wonderful, and I would love to correspond with you more about your experiences! My email is csalmon at dal dot ca. ;) Thanks! |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | MAM |
| Comments: | Peace on Earth.
Next year in Jerusalem. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Alexander Gartler |
| Homepage URL: | http://info@bagpipes.at |
| Comments: | Hi there...
I think it's lovely that even people that don't live in Europe come to the MOL to commemarate the "Shoa"... KEEP SPREADING THE WORD!!! Alex |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Michelle |
| Comments: | Hello. I am a Junior in high school in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. My mom recently sent away for the March of the Living 2006 papers, and we received them yesterday. Your web site makes me realize how much I really want to go out and do this. Your site is very well done. I imagine that this would be quite the experience... |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | jaelanne |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.livejournal.com/~jaelanne |
| Comments: | yay, another miami knitting jew. your sis is a cool girl, and she thinks you are too!
wanna do the March, just came back from Israel. I wanna be the oldest girl to be Bat Mizvahed in Israel ever :) |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | No |
| Name: | lorraine casanelli |
| Homepage URL: | http://grandmammacas@cox.net |
| Comments: | Sara, what a beautiful tribute to those who have gone on before us. One of my grandfathers was Jewish and though I am Christian, my ties with the Jewish community have always been strong. When I was a very young child, I read the Diary of Anne Frank and have never been the same. I have read everything I could about the holocaust, with fascination, disgust and awe, never able to understand man's inhumanity to man, grateful to those who were able and willing to help those who were persecuted, heartbroken for those whose lives were lost and/or forever changed because of the atrocities.
Thank you for sharing your experience. While I will probably not get to Poland or Germany, I do hope to experience the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, sometime in the next few years. Your Dreambook is an inspiration. Shalom. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | No |
| Name: | Marc Locker |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ICCD.com |
| Comments: | Sara,
I share with you and our extended family of Jew's from around the world both pride and joy at being part of such an life changing experience. I began my journey with questions ranging from How? Why? and where was G-d??? even is there a G-d??? My experiences with individuals , groups and survivors, helped me come away with a sense of healing,. and the understanding that although we have been the focus of many attemps thru history to eradicate us, we are still here, still thriving, still holing our shared values and our love of life, and family. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | No |
| Name: | mike kaufmann |
| Homepage URL: | http://kaufmann.co.za/mike/myjourney/ |
| Comments: | Below is the prologue of my exhibition of my trip to Poland.
Please go into the site. http://www.kaufmann.co.za/mike/myjourney/ Click on the painting to get in,then click on the right on each red line which are some writing and click on each photo to enlarge. I hope that you find this interesting and helpful. Kind regards, Mike Kaufmann Prologue ________ I went to Poland in April of 1995 on the March of the Living Tour. My intention was not to have an exhibition but to have photographs for my own use. I took along several cameras including black and white film, being the photographic medium of the time. There are a number of photographs that are out of focus for which I do not apologize, as it was difficult to focus through my tears. There were many pictures that I did not take like the barrack that was full of shoes that as I walked in I choked on the smell after 55 years, the barrack that was full of suitcases and the barrack that was full of children's toothbrushes and personal effects. These photographs are scanned from contacts. The exhibition photos were professionally done (some were redone a number of times) to get certain effects accentuated like darks darker and lights lighter and to try and create moods. These effects are not possible to produce on the computer monitor. The exhibition was held at the Albow Centre Cape Town , South Africa in April 1996 ,was 13m long and 2,7m high, and the background was painted black. I tried to create a feeling of the viewer being overwhelmed by the blackness and size and drawn in to the beauty and by the deception. The idea is, that each picture is in the order that the person who went into the camp, walked and saw what I saw. As you look at each picture try and imagine yourself walking through this camp not knowing what to expect next and in great conflict. The conflict being that as you entered the camp, there was a sign that said "Arbeid Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free) and these bureaucrats, in and out of uniform, who are only doing their job and carrying out their orders, (which was to process your death) who view you as the scum of the earth, demanding your number(your name is irrelevant) etc. and recording this in a tome. (How much has changed?) While on the trip I asked many questions:Why? What is the same now as was then?What is different now?What makes the situation now that something like this cannot happen again? I have not yet found the answers.The level of deception, distortions, myths, the coverups ,the spin ,deception by omission and outright lies by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment, and others who want to keep the truth from us,is something that is so great the public has no clue as to what is really going on at any given time. "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels He Believed, was written in April 2000 to try and get some clue as to what my Grandfather may have thought at each year and to try and put an age to ourselves and those people who are dear to us who do things that we really do not understand why they do what they do and think what they think, when he only did what he felt to be right, only to be wrong! "The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break , servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." John Philpott Curran 1750- 1817 I want to thank my family for their continuous support, Grant and Anthony and Gary who have made this presentation possible. http://www.kaufmann.co.za/mike/myjourney/ Thank You, Kind regards, Mike Kaufmann |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | mike kaufmann |
| Homepage URL: | http://kaufmann.co.za/mike/myjourney/ |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Ratnam |
| Comments: | Hi, Sara.Im from Singapore and I am an Indian. My heart is with the Jewish people |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Meira shatenstien |
| Comments: | hi my name is meira , and I am actually goign through the process to be able to og on the MOTL, and be able to read ayour page was preparing me some what, and I just wanted to say thank you, and that was an awesome idea of making the page. thank you again for deciding to share your experience with other. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Meira shatenstien |
| Comments: | hi my name is meira , and I am actually goign through the process to be able to og on the MOTL, and be able to read ayour page was preparing me some what, and I just wanted to say thank you, and that was an awesome idea of making the page. thank you again for deciding to share your experience with other. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Steven Bernstein |
| Comments: | Hi Sarah,
I came across your page by Googling for information about songs sung on the March of the Living. I had also gone on the 1994 March (I was with the CT-RI-NJ group). I'm also a librarian... a Judaica Cataloger at the Jewish Theological Seminary... MLS from Southern Connecticut State University. My wife did her undergraduate graduate of Simmons college. Nice site you got here. Steven |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Geoff Garber |
| Comments: | Dear Sara
Thanks or sharing our insights, feelings and thoughts about your varied experiences of your March. I am due to attend next year's MOTL programme and am reading, talking to survivors and in these ways trying to prepare myself for this experience as best I can. Even though I have taught Shoah Studies, the thought of this 'trip' is daunting. Kind regards Geoff Garber geoffgarber@gmail.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Betsy |
| Comments: | Hi Sara-
I stumbled across your website today and spent some time looking through it, VERY nice!...I went on the March this year 2004, as an adult. It was fabulous too! I am wondering if you still are affiliated with the March, have you thought about going on another one as staff? betsy_hubert@bellsouth.net |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Hannah Weisberg |
| Homepage URL: | http://none |
| Comments: | I just went on Motl this year. It was an amazing experience and I am recommending all my other Jewish friends to go on it. I was in awe at seeing all those jews on the march. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | David |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.livejournal.com/community/motlalumni |
| Comments: | Hi,
My name is David and I just returned from the March of the Living. I have set up a community at LiveJournal.com for MOTL alumni. The address is http://www.livejournal.com/community/motlalumni. I'd love for you to add this to your links page so that we can spread the word and further the communication between March alumni from all years. David |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | ... |
| Comments: | I just the other day got home from MOTL 2004! It has been very hard to adjust back into regular life. The MOTL is still processing though me. Your page makes me feel so happy, to know that there are so many other Jewish people around the world who have experienced the same thing. It was an experience i will never ever forget, and i hope to share it with as many people as possible, and to go back onday to educate other students and to be there to help them cope through the emotional experience. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Rachael Goldman |
| Homepage URL: | http://classics.rutgers.edu |
| Comments: | Hi Sara,
I was so pleased to find you website, and from someone who went on the March in my year. I, too, went on the March in 1994, and walked away with many emotions. For me it is always a thrill to see pictures, good, bad, horrendous and blissful because they remind me of the experience that I had. May you go from strength to strength! Rachael Goldman Rutgers College- Dept of Classics MOTL Metrowest 1994 |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Magda Cieślar |
| Homepage URL: | http://magdziacie@wp.pl |
| Comments: | Hi! I'm from Poland and I know very well the idea of March. In this year (2004) I've been on my thidr March, and I must say that it's a great exparience for me. I would be very happy, if someone of you would like to write to me. I'm looking forward to see your mails. Bye |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | No |
| Name: | Ira Litman |
| Comments: | My daughter is on the March today. I thank you for your insight and thoughts. I am trying to imagine how my Benni is reacting to the sights and implications. |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | No |
| Name: | yaakov |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.orsimcha.org |
| Comments: | Loving home to 400 underprivileged children from throughout the state of Israel
http://www.orsimcha.org |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | yaakov levin |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.orsimcha.org |
| Comments: | Ohr simcha is a home for those children of loneliness, fear and poverty who have yearned for such a home all their young lives. It is their home, filled with concern for their wellbeing and responsibility for their future. Ohr Simcha is a state-of-the-art residential and educational facility located near- Tel Aviv.
help us save the hundreds of children who are in desperate need of a helping hand for a fresh start in life. It is through your generous support that Ohr- Simcha can help them. Please add your gift of hope for a brighter future for so many poor children in the State of Israel. Please send your donation Donate today. http://www.orsimcha.org Wishing you G-d bless you and Shalom from Israel. Yaakov Levin. ylevin@bezeqint.net orsimcha@orsimcha.org Executive director |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | No |
| Name: | cynthia gutierrez |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Ora Feder |
| Homepage URL: | http://ofeder@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I just want to thank you for creating a website of the March of the Living 1994.
The March was one of the things in my life that changed the way that I looked at the world. Its was one of the most memorable experiences in my life. Thanks, Ora Feder Nashua, NH |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Ora Feder |
| Homepage URL: | http://ofeder@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I just want to thank you for creating a website of the March of the Living 1994.
The March was one of the things in my life that changed the way that I looked at the world. Its was one of the most memorable experiences in my life. Thanks, Ora Feder Nashua, NH |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | Ora Feder |
| Homepage URL: | http://Ofeder@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I was also on the March of the Living in 1994. I was so happy to come upon your site. I have been thinking of creating a website as well on my experiences on the March and how its changed my life and the way I think about things.
I have seen manys site for year after 1994 but nothing for 1994 until I came along your site. It was great. I just want to thank you for taking the time to create this site. Ora Feder Nashua, NH |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Yes |
| Name: | janet |
| Homepage URL: | http://lazarjl@aol.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Sara your website is most fitting for all to read. Because this week is Yom Hashoah observance, I was scanning links on the subject and came to your website. My husband's family escaped to Canada, Peru and Israel. There were those that were not so lucky. My father's immediate family left Russia before WW1, but the rest of his family did not.
Thank you for giving us the pictures, your journal and your insights on the the March of the Living experience. |
| Name: | Dee Waters |
| Homepage URL: | http://Datya_00@yahoo.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Your site is really powerful. Thank you for sharing. May we never forget.
Dee |
| Name: | Marilyn S. Peare, R.N. |
| Homepage URL: | http://Marilyn@Shadow.net |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Dear Sara,
Your web site was beautiful. My daughter was on the 1990 March and I went in 1994. I trained with the Miami group and was assigned (as nurse chaperon) to the Boca/Broward group, on buses # 510, 511 and 512. Like you, I also feel that the March has changed my life. I look at things differently - we learned so much about the Holocaust, Judaism, Israel, the U.S. in which we were born and raised, and, most of all, about ourselves. The Shabbat in Poland in the hotel was one of the most incredible one in my life. They could never understand why we could sing and appear happy - what could they imagine about Shabbat? We were celebrating life - Am Yisrael Chai! I lost it at Majdanek, with the baby shoes. Having been through Hurricane Andrew, I was able to save my children's shoes. When I saw the baby shoes there, I thought about all the mothers who could not have their children's shoes, and more importantly, their children! My outstanding memory of the Wall was when they told us that when the world prays, we face Jerusalem, when we are in Jerusalem, we face the Wall, and when we are at the Wall, the whole world is facing us. When I mentioned to one of the bus captains that it would feel strange to go home, she said "Marilyn, we are home." Thank you for a beautiful site. Shalom -- Marilyn |
| Name: | Aviva |
| Homepage URL: | http://aviva_m@yahoo.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Being too old for the March of the Living, I've never really looked into it (I hope to be able to tour the camps at some point in my life) but I came across the link to your site and I'm so glad I decided to read about your experience. I was moved to tears and feel as though through your pictures and words, I was there with you. The March is such a beautiful way to honor those who were murdered as well as obtain first-hand information about the atrocities committed there. My father is a survivor, having lost two siblings in the Holocaust, so it's by the grace of G-d I'm here today. The March of the Living is something I will definitely remember when, hopefully, I have children old enough to participate. Thank you for sharing your experience. |
| Name: | Kelly |
| Homepage URL: | http://Christine_Daae@phantomemail.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Hi, thought I'd drop a line to say this is a great page, the March of the Living sounds like a fantastic experience, I hope you had a good time. I'm very interested in the Holocaust myself and I think it would have been great, thanks for sharing it with us. |
| Name: | Kyria |
| Homepage URL: | http://kyria@canaan-dogs.com |
| Comments: | http://www.canaan-dogs.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Great idea. I loved it. |
| Name: | Carri |
| Homepage URL: | http://rampagec5@aol.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | hi, it is jan. 28 today. on april 16-30 in 2001 i went on the MARCH OF THE LIVING. i am in 11 grade now and that is something that will live with my forever! i loved looking at your web site and seeing all the things that i saw and it is amazing to know that others feel the same as u. i just wanted to tell u that i know exactly what u went through. Carri~ Detriot, Michigan. |
| Name: | Claire |
| Homepage URL: | http://taj2001@hotmail.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | I am so glad that you made this page! I never knew of the March of the Living until thirty minuets ago when I started looking for information on the holocaust. I give you major props for making a page about this, and even bigger ones for actually going. I dont think I would be able to make it. Reading about your experiance is hard enough. Thank you so much.
Claire M. Hulstrom |
| Name: | Nadine Ginsburg |
| Homepage URL: | http://nrg@udel.edu |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | After putting a search for the March of the Living, I
stumbled upon this site, and after viewing your guestbook and seeing one of my fellow marchers, Lauren Handman, I decided to sign. I am a 2000 marcher and it will be two weeks that I will never forget and thank g-d everyday I had the chance to experience and pass on to others. The march is the chance of a lifetime and hopefully it will go on forever to prevent and educate about anti semitism and one of the most horrific times in Jewish history. |
| Name: | Carole |
| Homepage URL: | http://Fddlrgrl@yahoo.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Sara, I stumbled upon your website while searching for ideas
for a Yom HaShoah program, and was captivated by the images you conjure up through your photographs and words. This is a wonderful site which makes me curious to learn more about the March Of The Living. I never before thought about visiting the site of the holocaust. Now I am thinking about it. I have been to Israel, but it would be effective to see the ashes that it, and my family, for that matter, grew from before seeing it again. Thank you for opening my eyes to a new point of view. |
| Name: | kimberly g. |
| Homepage URL: | http://kimg83@yahoo.com |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | i'm a grade 11 student and i will be participating in the
march of the living in a month. i have no idea what to expect, and your site gave me a pretty good idea of what the trip is gonna ge like. obviously, every one has different things they feel when they come back, but i wanted to thank you for making a site like this. |
| Name: | Rebecca |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Thank you for you webpage dedicated to the most amazing
experience that I've ever had. The March is something that I will never forget. Everyday I see things that keep it in my mind. |
| Name: | Lynda Appell |
| Homepage URL: | http://sodalite@angelfire.com |
| Comments: | http://internations.net/appellcore/index.htm |
| Click here if you have been or plan to go on the March of the Living: | Warmest wishes Sara on your heartfelt, beautiful site.
I too am Jewish and some of my relatives were murdered by the NAZIs. I also support my site by writing a disabilities issues in themestream. URL: http://www.themestream.com/articles/302957.html. This helps support my site. Thank you |
| Name: | Adam |
| Comments: | incredible never forgetting trip
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| Name: | Lauren Handman |
| Comments: | hi my name is Lauren and I am from Berwyn, PA. This past
May I went on the March of the Living 2000 as a senior in high school. It was the greatest experience in my life and will never forget it. Words can't express how I feel. |