March of the Living

New England Region

MOTL New England’s Mission

The International March of the Living is an annual educational program, which brings individuals from all over the world to Poland and Israel, in order to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hate.

New England Friends of March of the Living Mission

The mission of the New England Friends of March of the Living (NEMOTL) is to ensure the perpetuation of the March of the Living Program through the establishment and maintenance of a Teen Trip Scholarship Fund and other activities to create awareness and to promote and fund the MOTL Program throughout New England. The Scholarship Fund will support MOTL’s goals of educating Jewish teenagers about the dangers of hatred and intolerance.

The region’s Board consists of Aaron Kischel (left front), NEMOTL Director/Docent of Teen Education; and Jim Slovin, Director of Development. In back row (from left) are Andy Fandel, Website Communication Services Manager; Irv Kempner, Chair/CEO; Steven Rafsky Treasurer; and Larry Lencz, Secretary.

Watch “Fireside Chat with Ron Dermer” on YouTube

International March of the Living Fireside Chat featuring Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States

Ambassador Dermer participated in the 2018 March of the Living, along with his wife Rhoda. On Erev Yom HaShoah, he delivered the keynote address during our solemn ceremony at the Krakow Opera House, which left an indelible impression on all privileged to hear it.

Ambassador Dermer will have a personal conversation with Phyllis Greenberg Heideman, President of the International March of the Living.

Register for “The most Life changing trip experience of its kind”.

Join 13,000 teens from 50 countries!

MOTL, in its 36th year, inspires participants to become knowledgeable, active community leaders. Groups are led by local guides, historians and Holocaust survivors. MOTL has brought 294,000 teens to Eastern Europe and Israel.

2024 will be a spectacular year for us – the 76th anniversary of the state of Israel, 36th anniversary of the March of the Living, 81th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and 80th Anniversary of D-Day.  Our journey is scheduled for Wednesday, May 1 – 15, 2024

Contact Aaron Kischel: kischel7241@gmail.com

Learn more and apply for the teen trip here.

Program Prepares Teens to Face Holocaust Deniers, Anti-Semitism

‘March of the Living’ Program Takes Teens to Poland and Israel

BOSTON, MASS. — World War II Supreme Allied Commander and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that someday there would be people brazen and hateful enough to deny the Holocaust ever occurred.

Today, 77 years after the end of WW II, amidst the worldwide rise of anti-Semitism, thousands of Jewish teens annually visit the Nazi death camps under the auspices of March of the Living to see where so much happened and to try to understand why.

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See posts and photos from previous teen trips to Poland and Israel!

Teens from New England marched from Auschwitz to Birkenau concentration camps in Poland led by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Then, just days later, they celebrated Israel’s 70th Independence Day in Jerusalem.

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Image of Map of trains to concentration camps
Image of MOTL New England students visit the Auschwitz death camp.
Image of MOTL New England students visit the Auschwitz death camp.
Image of April 2018 March of the Living Trip video
Image of MOTL New England students visit the Auschwitz death camp.
Image of MOTL New England students visit the Auschwitz death camp.
Image of MOTL New England students visit the Auschwitz death camp.
Image of MOTL New England students visit the Auschwitz death camp.
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Image of Day 1 of our Poland student mission at the Treblinka death camp.
Image of The Nożyk Synagogue is the only surviving prewar Jewish house of prayer in Warsaw, Poland.
Image of Born in New York City, Schudrich lived in Patchogue, New York, where his father served as a pulpit rabbi.
Image of Before the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939, almost every Polish town had a synagogue or a Jewish house of prayer of some kind.
Image of Nożyk Synagogue
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Image of Warsaw Cemetery
Image of Warsaw Cemetery
Image of Warsaw Cemetery
Image of Warsaw Cemetery
Image of Irv at Warsaw Cemetery headstones of his great grandparents.
Image of Irv at Warsaw Cemetery headstones of his great grandparents.
Image of Warsaw ghetto memorial
Image of Day 1 of our Poland student mission at the Treblinka death camp.
Image of Day 1 of our Poland student mission at the Treblinka death camp.
Image of Lodz Holocaust memorial at Radegast train station where Approximately 200,000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews passed through the station on the way to their deaths in the period from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944.
Image of Lodz Holocaust memorial at Radegast train station where Approximately 200,000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews passed through the station on the way to their deaths in the period from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944.
Image of Lodz Holocaust memorial at Radegast train station where Approximately 200,000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews passed through the station on the way to their deaths in the period from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944.
Image of Mayjanik Death Camp
Image of Members of the 2018 March of the Living trip visit Tykocin Synagogue.
Image of Participants in Mila 18 from 2018 March of the Living trip.
Image of Participants in Treblinka from 2018 March of the Living trip
Image of Umschlagplatz memorial square
Image of 2018 Marchers boarding the bus from Aaron kischel's house
Image of Israel's 69th concert event
Image of Friday at the Kotel
Image of 911 memorial
Image of Abrahams Tent Israel
Image of Abrahams Tent Israel
Image of Aaron Kischel
Image of 2017 on the train tracks of Birkeneau
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Image of Warsaw Ghetto uprising memorial from Florida 2017 Adult March of the Living trip.
Image of Yom Ha'shoah Eve
Image of 2016 Teens at Birkenau
Image of 2016 New England Teen Marchers
Image of 2016 Adult Marchers
Image of The March from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Yom Hashoah.

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