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The march from Auschwitz takes an emotional toll on all participants. (Photo: Jordan Stoopler)
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March of the Living: Students and survivors learn from each other

by × on April 21, 2014 at 8:05 am × 0 comments

By Jordan Stoopler One year ago, when Dawson College student Sharon Brand walked under the sign Arbeit Macht Frei—Work Makes One Free—into Auschwitz, she was overcome with emotion. Her eyes welled with tears as she embarked on a march that holds special significance to her. “A lot of my family […]

A statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam. (Photo by Stephane D'Alu, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
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Anne Frank and Eva Schloss, sisters in tragedy

by × on October 2, 2013 at 12:28 pm × 0 comments

In her three books and countless talks to young people and adults, Eva Schloss, 84, has been keeping alive the legacy of the Holocaust. It is not a freely chosen vocation, but rather it became her destiny when her mother married Anne Frank’s father, Otto. The small diary Anne left […]