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Today, thousands of Jewish students and allies around the world will head to campus and start the academic year.
98-year-old Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger has a message for every one of them.
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Calling all MOTL alumni!
Our next Alumni Book Club meeting will discuss The Sunflower by Holocaust Survivor Simon Wiesenthal.
Wiesenthal recounts being asked for forgiveness by a dying SS soldier and questions if he did the right thing by staying silent.
Join us on Zoom on Sunday, November 1
10AM LA · 12PM Chicago · 1PM NY · 6PM UK · 8PM Israel
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Henri Kagan survived the Holocaust as a child in France.
This week, at 95, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Mazal Tov, Henri!
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Three years ago today, Hamas terrorists murdered 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostage.
Eli Sharabi spent 491 days in captivity. He came home to learn that his wife, Lianne, and his daughters, Noiya and Yahel, had been murdered.
When he met Holocaust survivor Naftali Fürst at the March of the Living, Naftali held him and cried.
"We didn't need to speak. We understood each other."
On the road from Auschwitz to Birkenau, Holocaust survivors and survivors of October 7 found each other.
Today we remember every life taken on October 7, and we stand with the survivors and families who carry that day with them.
May their memories be a blessing.
85 years ago, on the eve of Yom Kippur, 33,771 Jewish women, men, and children were murdered at Babyn Yar, Kyiv, in just two days.
"Stillness. Silence. A people has been murdered."
— Vasily Grossman, 1943
May their memory be a blessing.
Belonging isn't built by walls of stone. It's built by the people we gather inside. 💙
This Sukkot, meet the students who experienced this first hand on the road from Auschwitz to Birkenau:
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The decision by the town council of Heidenau, in the German state of Saxony, to stop installing Stolpersteine memorial stones must be a wake-up call.
Together with reports of similar attempts elsewhere in Germany, it raises a deeply troubling question: are political interests being allowed to push the memory of Nazi victims out of public life? Stolpersteine confront people with the history of Nazi persecution in the places where it happened. Preventing more of them from being laid serves political interests at the expense of historical truth.
The Nazis murdered Jews and tried to erase their names, their communities and their place in history. Eighty-one years after the end of the war, elected officials in Germany have voted to prevent more of those names from appearing on the streets where the victims lived.
The murders cannot be undone. Denying the victims remembrance adds another grave wrong: it continues the effort to erase them from history.
Germany has a particular responsibility to confront the crimes committed against Jews and against humanity. Eighty-one years later, that responsibility calls for stronger commemoration and a determined fight against both forgetting and deliberate erasure.
We call on Heidenau to reverse its decision and on Germany’s leaders and citizens to oppose every effort to hide this history.
The city council of Heidenau, in the German state of Saxony, voted to no longer permit new Stolpersteine memorial stones to be placed on the city's streets and sidewalks in memory of Jews and other victims of the Nazis.
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One candle. One siddur. 800 women praying in one barrack.
Judy Weissenberg Cohen was 16 when she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in June 1944. Decades later, she returned with March of the Living to share this memory: Yom Kippur in the camp, when the Nazis gave the women ten minutes to pray.
"Someone lit that single candle, and silence fell over the barrack. The women all burst into tears together. Our prayer was a prayer of tears."
"Even today, whenever I hear Kol Nidrei, I return to the Kol Nidrei in the barrack. That is the Kol Nidrei I remember."
Judy passed away this month. Her story will remain with us.
May her memory be a blessing. Wishing you all a meaningful Yom Kippur. G'mar Chatima Tova.
One year ago on Yom Kippur, Yoni Finlay was shot protecting his synagogue's doors.
This year, he walked from Auschwitz to Birkenau with the March of the Living : "Hate is not abstract. It has consequences, and I am living proof."
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"I went to Poland to learn history and returned knowing what remembrance demands."
As registration opens for the 2027 March of the Living, a Panamanian student reflects on how Auschwitz-Birkenau turned history into personal responsibility.
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In a special from the @nationalpost, Eva Kuper writes how many Jewish students are returning to campus this year with fears earlier generations had hoped would never return.
Eva, a survivor of the Holocaust, says university should be a place where ideas are tested through reason, disagreement leads to honest dialogue and every student can learn without fear.
Recently, the Government of Canada released the Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) report that found 96% of Jewish students had experienced or witnessed at least one antisemitic incident.
You can read the full story here:
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And view the CASE report here:
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Holocaust survivor Eva Kuper, writing to students heading to campus this fall:
"Antisemitism is not only a Jewish problem; it is an assault on truth, human dignity and the values education is meant to defend."
Read her full letter:
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She survived Auschwitz, today she turns 88.
Happy Birthday to the amazing Tova Friedman 💙!
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“They can’t hide. They can’t run. Running is over.”
Auschwitz survivor Nate Leipziger, 98, has a message for Jewish students dealing with antisemitism all over the world.
“Never permit those who hate you to define you. We have paid a very high price for our survival, and we survived."
"Because we survived, now, we have to continue to fight for those who are not here, and we have to maintain our identity, and we have to be proud of who we are."
"Today, we don’t have to run because we have Israel, which is strong and it’s fighting for us and our survival and the survival of our young people."
"We have to engage other people of goodwill to help us fight this evil, because if we don’t hold hands together, we will go under together," he said. "This message goes out not only to the Jewish students, but also to the non-Jewish students."
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A powerful message from Holocaust survivor, Nate Leipciger in his open letter to Jewish students: "You are not responsible for the hatred directed at you. You do not have to conceal who you are to earn the right to belong. Never permit those who hate you to define you."
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As Jewish students headed back to campuses across North America and around the world amid a surge in antisemitism, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor has a message for them - and it is one of pride, not fear.
Nate Leipciger, who was 15 years old when the Nazis deported him from the ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau - where he was separated from his mother and sister, whom he never saw again - has written a personal letter being distributed to hundreds of thousands of Jewish students worldwide through the International March of the Living.
The letter was distributed on September 1 - the anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Leipciger has participated in the March of the Living 22 times, more than any other Holocaust survivor from the Diaspora - and at 98, he walked from Auschwitz to Birkenau this past April for the 22nd time.
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Proud to join the @MOTLorg’s global initiative sharing Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger’s powerful message with Jewish students around the world.
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