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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.