Dear Friend, It is hard to believe we have now well and truly passed the 'half-way' mark for 2022! As this year continues to whizz by, we hope this finds you well and safe. We have a varied selection of upcoming events this month which we are excited to share with you below! |
In this edition (if viewing this on a desktop, click on each heading to skip to that section): |
Special Announcement: March of the Living Australia's in-person programs will resume in 2023!
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After two challenging years of upheaval and cancellations due to the global pandemic, we are extremely thrilled to announce that March of the Living Australia will be resuming its live, in-person programs in 2023! Excitingly, next year's March will coincide with special celebrations of March of the Living's 35th and Israel's 75th anniversaries, as well as the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In light of these milestone events, and given that many of our fellow delegations around the world will also be resuming their programs, we have no doubt the 2023 March will see record-high participation numbers and that it will be an incredible not-to-be-missed program!
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Starting in 2023, we will be shifting our focus to the Young Adult and Adult programs. For the first time ever, March of the Living Australia has committed to providing very substantial subsidisation of the program for all eligible Young Adult participants who may not be able to pay full fare. This is in recognition of the financial challenges many Young Adults, who are potentially only starting out in their careers and who may have been financially impacted by the pandemic, may be facing. This decision by March of the Living Australia to actively raise and dedicate funds in order to make this unique program more accessible and affordable for the 18-35 year-old Young Adult cohort, bears in mind the unique power and impact of this program and the potential it has in shaping the views, opinions, attitudes and proactivity of our future generations and leaders.
We warmly invite you to click here to learn more about the Young Adult
and Adult programs. |
In light of this exciting news, we would like to share with you two articles that were recently published online and in the Australian Jewish News (AJN) in honour of the resumption of the in-person programs in 2023.
The first is an article published in the AJN in which our President, Cedric Geffen, discusses the 2023 program. The second is a blog post published on The Social Blueprint, in which Ben de Winter describes the immense impact the March of the Living program has had on his life since his participation on the Student program in 2013. |
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For our next online event on Sunday 10 July 2022, we are thrilled to welcome Eitan Neishlos, Ambassador and Founder of March of the Living in the Gulf, for a riveting and inspiring discussion about Eitan's realisation and commitment - that it s up to him and his cohort, 3rd Generation survivors and other Gen Y and Gen Z young adults - to pick up the torch of memory and continue educating about the Holocaust and fighting antisemitism and other forms of prejudice, discrimination and hatred.
At the age of 42, Eitan has already established himself as a young leader in the Jewish world. He is the president and founder of investment house Neishlos Capital, and its philanthropic arm the Neishlos Foundation, which advocates for Israel, combats antisemitism and provides Holocaust education, including through a strategic partnership with the International March of the Living. Eitan was recently appointed Founder and Ambassador of International March of the Living in the Gulf states. He has fought prejudice, racism and discrimination in all its forms through his leadership of Courage to Care, a B'nai B'rith program that has so far educated over 200,000 young Australians about the dangers of prejudice.
Alongside his work as the past Chair of Courage to Care, he has been the Associate Chairman of the Liberal Friends of Israel, and a member of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies. He is also a proud member of the President's Council of the Art Gallery of NSW and supports an array of artistic and cultural projects globally. For Eitan, business, technological progress, social impact and philanthropy are inherently linked, underpinning his vision of a world where people and communities are empowered to create sustainable social impact.
We would like to make a special 'call-out' to Young Adult cohort of our community to register and attend this special event, which will no doubt prove to be greatly informative and illuminating! |
The History of YIVO and the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project
with Jonathan Brent
Online Event - Sunday 24 July
at 10:00am AEST (please note this special time)
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For our second online event of the month on Sunday 24 July at 10am AEST, we are thrilled to welcome Jonathan Brent - historian, publisher, translator, writer and teacher - who will cover how and why The YIVO Institute of Jewish Research (based in New York city since 1940) was established and the history of its prewar collections. YIVO remarkably is the only cultural organisation of its kind to have survived the Holocaust with its near destruction at the hands of the Nazis and in 1949 by the Russians. The talk will also cover the miraculous rescue of the YIVO archives by the brave men and women of the Paper Brigade and later by the heroic acts of Lithuanian Librarian Atanas Ulpis, and will conclude with the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project - a 7 million dollars, 7-year international project to digitally reunite YIVO's prewar archive and make it accessible to a global public.
For eighteen years (1991-2009) Jonathan was Humanities Senior Editor, then Editorial Director at Yale University Press where he established the Annals of Communism series. His books include Stalin's Last Crime (2003); and Inside the Stalin Archives (2008). Brent has translated poems of Joseph Brodsky and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and teaches history and literature at Bard College. He is currently writing a study of Stalin's seizure of power and finishing a novel.
In 2009, Brent became Executive Director and CEO of The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research where he initiated The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collection Project in 2014, an international project to conserve and digitise all of YIVO's pre-WW II collections in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2018, Brent initiated development of the YIVO Digital Museum of East European and Russian Jewish Life. In 2019 he received the Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania by H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic of Lithuania. The award was given to Mr. Brent in recognition of his work in promoting cooperation between Lithuania and YIVO and for the preservation of the prewar Jewish archives of Lithuania.
Brent lectures and publishes widely on Jewish, Soviet and East European history. He has made three documentaries about his work: Stalin's Last Plot (2009); Stalin: Man of Steel (2003); Declassified: Stalin (2006); and How to Become a Tyrant (2021, Netflix). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Commentary, The American Scholar, The New Republic, The New Criterion, The Chronicle of Higher Education and numerous other journals and newspapers. He is now participating in a documentary on the life and disappearance of Raul Wallenberg. His books have been translated into French, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, and Polish.
| The fight for truth against Lithuanian Holocaust Lies - with Michael Kretzmer
Online Event Recording
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On Sunday 12 June, March of the Living Australia was honoured to welcome journalist and documentarian Michael Kretzmer for a confronting yet riveting discussion where he revealed and discussed the sordid background to Lithuania's shameful acts of Holocaust distortion. Among many talking points, Michael unraveled how, incredibly, Lithuania is the world leader in manufacturing lies about the Holocaust via its Orwellian Genocide Centre, which employs 120 pseudo-historians to lie about Lithuania's role in the depraved genocide - a country which had slaughtered approximately 220,000 Jews (96.4% of the Jewish population) by the end of the war, the highest in Europe.
This was a truly informative event, and we warmly invite you to click on the image below to view a recording of it. |
2022 International Holocaust Survivor Day
Online Event Recording
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March of the Living Australia was proud to once again support and promote the second annual Holocaust Survivor Day, which this year fell on June 26th. In 2022, this important day was marked by two events: the first on June 26th at Beit Lohamei Haguetaot with the participation of Holocaust Survivors and their families, greetings by representatives of the Government of Israel, the WZO and representatives of major Jewish organisations. The second, on June 27th at the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, in presence of the President of Israel and representatives of the Israeli Government and major Jewish organisations, where the program included a play, "The Avengers-a Love Story".
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Here is a selection of recent articles and videos from around the world, many of which we have shared across our social media over the past few weeks: |
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