March of the Living
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Sep 22, 2026
Mika SteinGUEST
I think it's really important to see the history for yourself, to see how these systems can be built, but then also it's really, really important if you're going to advocate as to why these things shouldn't be happening now to know how they happened in the past.
Mika SteinGUEST
And I'll just say, I went on March of the Living my senior year of high school, and we had a really deep moment in one of the gas chambers where we said the Shema together, And my rabbi pointed out, if you look at the ceiling, there are scratch marks in the ceiling from people trying to claw their way out of being gassed to death.
Mika SteinGUEST
And that's really horrific to see.
Mika SteinGUEST
And we, as Jewish people, should hold on to that pain and, again, make sure that doesn't happen to us ever again.
Yoshi ZweibackHOST
And travel with us.
Yoshi ZweibackHOST
I'm leading another trip, March of the Living, next spring to Poland and Israel.
Yoshi ZweibackHOST
And you can come with me to bear witness and connect to the past and make new friends and connect to community and connect to our people's story.
Yoshi ZweibackHOST
And in your daily lives, wherever you are, look someone in the eyes.
David ChametzkyHOST
Yes.
Sami SteigmannGUEST
So this is something very important for me and I was this year, I was on the March of the Living, in Treblinka, not in Treblinka, in Birkenau, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the dead camp.
Sami SteigmannGUEST
I was given the honor to light the seventh torch for the rebirth of the State of Israel, and I had the opportunity to say what I just said to you and to your audience.
David ChametzkyHOST
And that's part of the difference is that the brutality, no matter what, you know.
MauriceGUEST
the concentration camps she often had nightmares and she woke up screaming and I had to sort of console her and try to settle her down during the nights.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
My 24-year-old son, Richard, when he was still at school, I think he was 17 years of age, he had the privilege of going on the March of the Living.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
And he went first to Israel, and then he went to the various camps that my mother had been in.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
And it was quite poignant because he celebrated his 17th birthday at Majdanek, which is where my mother had her 17th birthday.
Jonah PlattHOST
Yeah.
Jonah PlattHOST
Your father was the first North American chair of March of the Living.
Jonah PlattHOST
So first of all, I'd love for my audience to hear from you what that is, and also I want to hear how your family became so involved.
Mark WilfGUEST
Like I said, education is a major driver for us in sh- terms of making sure, uh, the future generations.
Mark WilfGUEST
And we see how, uh, literacy of the Jewish world and, and just current events in general is lacking, so.
Jonah PlattHOST
Big time.
Mark WilfGUEST
The March of the Living back, uh, I think it was in the '70s or early '80s, I'm not sure exactly the dates, but he along with some others were part of the founding group.
Jonah PlattHOST
Wow.
Daniela GersonGUEST
But part of why they were so disappointed and so, like, heartbroken was because they had to leave behind a Poland that really mattered to them, and that there was so much life and love in Poland also, and that these communities were so complex.
Daniela GersonGUEST
And I think, you know, Talia had been before, but she'd been on March of the Living, this teen tour that takes Jewish young people to concentration camps in the dreariest months of the Polish, like, end of winter, and all they see are death camps that the Germans built, and y- or worse, saw in winter.
Daniela GersonGUEST
Like, it's, it was s- we arrived in September, and someone, one of the, a wonderful academic I spoke to there kept being like, "Oh, you're gonna arrive for the golden autumn." And I was like, "Golden autumn? What is this?" Um, and I just thought it meant, like, the extended, um, you know how we talk about, I guess you're not really supposed to say it anymore, but you say, like, an Indian s- Indian summer.
Daniela GersonGUEST
But that's what I thought it was gonna be.
Daniela GersonGUEST
Yes, exactly.
Daniela GersonGUEST
And that for us was a revelation in many ways to really get to dive into Poland beyond this element of the the horrors our family survived and then they what was taught to us was one side of it but part of why they were so disappointed and so like heartbroken was because they had to leave behind a poland that really mattered to them and that there was so much life and love in poland also and that these communities were so complex and i think you know Talia had been before, but she'd been on March of the Living, this teen tour that takes Jewish young people to concentration camps in the dreariest months of the Polish end of winter.
Daniela GersonGUEST
And all they see are death camps that the Germans built.
Daniela GersonGUEST
Or Warsaw in winter.
MarvinHOST
You were a resource educator.
MarvinHOST
And then you were the director of March of the Living.
MarvinHOST
What made you want to switch?
Roneet EdrichGUEST
So my grandparents were from Poland and Vienna.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
[laughs]
Daniela GersonGUEST
But, um, and then, [laughs] and then Talia mentioned that she had a friend who she'd met through March of the Living.
Daniela GersonGUEST
And she mentioned March of the Living and that she had been to Poland and at, clearly, um, to visit death camps, but then she mentioned where her family was from, and she said, "Zamosc" And at that moment, I was like, "Zamosc" Because I had never heard anyone outside my family talk about Zamosc, which is where all of my family was from.
Daniela GersonGUEST
And that's when our relationship...
Daniela GersonGUEST
We were still friends, but it took on a very intense level.