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For You Who Died I Must Live
On: Reflections on the March of
the Living is a recently published
collection of poetry, prose and art
work by North American teen-
agers who attended the March of
the Living pilgrimage to Poland
in 1992.
The March of the Living — the
biennial event where Jewish
teen-agers from all over the world
travel to Poland and then to Is-
rael — seeks to symbolizes the
journey from past destruction to
present day rebirth.
Over the years, the march has
grown into a massive event.
Some 1,200 students partici-
pated in the first trip in 1988; by
1992, the numbers rose to 6,500,
with teen-agers from about 35
countries attending.
While the march has been the
subject of two documentaries, this
is the first time a book of the par-
ticipants' reactions has been pub-
lished.
"Of all the thousands of books
on the Holocaust, this is the only
book in existence that reflects the
response of today's Jewish youth
to the Holocaust," said the editor
of the book, Eli Rubenstein, na-
tional director of the United Is-
rael Appeal of Canada.
The book, which was written
primarily by Canadian teens,
contains 142 entries divided into
three sections titled "Memory,"
"Anguish" and "Hope."
Its title is taken from a song
written for the 1988 march that
promises the victims of the Holo-
caust: "The songs you could not
sing I promise I will sing."
Intended for both Jews and
non-Jews, the book is now in
bookstores across the country. It
won the 1994 Canadian Jewish
Book Award. The dramatic pho-
tograph on the cover with a girl
wrapped in an Israeli flag walk-
ing along the same train tracks
that once carried Jews to their
deaths, foreshadows the feelings
expressed in the book.
Through language and art, the
teens convey their horrors, self-
reflections and the strength they
found from their peers.
"It is riveting, profound stuff,
especially considering the age of
the kids," said Mr. Rubenstein.
The average age of the contrib-
utors is 16.
This book offers the march's
participants a chance to relate
their experiences to others.
"When they come back from the
march, they have this desire to
change the world. They want to
wake people up and fight com-
placency," Mr. Rubenstein said.
"This is the best way to do it." The
March of the living is not exempt
from criticism. The most com-
monly heard critique is that the
march concentrates solely on the
death of the Jews in Poland and
fails to acknowledge the resur-
gence of Jewish life in Poland to-
day.
Poland was home to 3.5 mil-
lion Jews before the Holocaust.
Today there are an estimated
10,000 to 30,000 Polish Jews.
"Stop the March of the Living,'
wrote Jonah Bookstein, an Amer-
ican Fulbright scholar in Poland
who works with Polish Jewish
youth, in an article in a nation-
al Jewish student paper, New
Voices.
Instead, Mr. Bookstein calls for
a "bridging (of) the living" with
integration programs that would
bring young Jews and Poles to-
gether. "There are thousands of
Jews who feel that being Jewish
is self-flagellation — Jews who
are Jewish out of the pain of gen-
erations before us," he wrote.
Mr. Rubenstein disagrees. "We
don't emphasize death. We
mourn death and emphasize life,"
he said. "One mission had the
students meet Jewish Polish stu-
dents and meet with a righteous
gentile." All participants in the
march attend preparatory ses-
sions where they learn about the
history and culture in Eastern
Europe before the Holocaust, ac-
cording to Mr. Rubenstein.
"If you don't give the students
an appreciation for the Jewish
existence before the Holocaust,
they are not going to feel a loss
when they are there," Mr. Ruben-
stein said.
The students' feelings of loss
and pain are evident in their sub-
missions.
In a poem titled, "So Wrong,"
16 year-old Daniella Weber from
Vancouver, British Columbia
writes, "I want the air to be heavy
and thick/ The birds to stop
singing their song/ I want the
stones to turn into people/ To find
out why humans went so wrong."
Others voiced their inability to
understand the Holocaust.
"I will never, ever be able to
comprehend the Hell/ that you
were forced to endure ... Never in
eternity," writes Elisa Frame, 17,
from Medford, N.J.
The overwhelming response,
however, is one of hope for the fu-
ture:
"And we will March on. We
shall live on," writes 16 year-old
Marni Beth Birnbaum from Gi-
rard, Ohio.