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My Life-Changing Experience

Jews, from all over the
world, marched together
for the sole purpose of
showing the world that we
are still here, despite the
described.
cruelties urged upon us
You go through so many
more than 50 years ago:
different emotions at one
Am
Yisrael Chai! (the
time, you're not exactly sure
Nation
of Israel Lives).
what you're supposed to be
Many
thought that the
thinking or what you should
march
should
be done in
be feeling. After spending a
silence,
because
this
week in a place where
MAGG IE LEE
march
that
so
many
countless amounts of people
Spec ial to
embarked upon in the
were murdered, you learn to
the Jew ish News
past ended up in their
look at life from a different
death.
To me, the march
perspective.
was
rejuvenating
and
joyous because
Hearing about acts of hatred over
we
were
there
to
prove
that we are
and over again, you begin to start to
still
alive
and
that
we
are
not going
hate the world. But what is that going
anywhere.
to do? You can't change what hap-
The March of the Living is a trip
pened in the past; you can only learn
that
I think everyone should have the
about it and inform the people around
opportunity
to experience. It's not
you.
only
a
learning
experience; it is a proof
I knew that the experience of the
that
the
Jewish
flame
will never be
March of the Living would change my
extinguished.
❑
life forever.

he March of the
Living is not an
experience that
can be easily

From the moment I
arrived in Poland, and
pulled up to tirkenau, an
eerie feeling grew in my
stomach. As we sat on the
bus and stared out the win-
dow at the former German
death camp, I was over-
whelmed. I was actually
here on the trip that I've
wanted to experience for so
long. For so long, it was
just pictures, books and
numbers.
Tears flowed from my eyes
at the death camp, where
thousands of people were
murdered. Learning from
textbooks and seeing pic-
tures in no way prepares you
to understand the depth of
the experience of being in
these places. Hearing the
stories of actual survivors in
the original setting was
powerful and gripping.
The actual march, from
Auschwitz to Birkenau, was
the most liberating possible.
Thousands and thousands of

Maggie Lee, 16, of West
Bloomfield is a strident at the
Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit. She is a
member of Ruach BBG and
Temple Kol Ami.

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Student at Talmudic Institute of
Upstate New York, Honor Roll and
advanced Bais Medresh, Academic
Achievement Award, Talmudic
Achievement Award, Congregation
Beth Shalom of Rochester Group
Leader, University of Michigan
Honors Program invitee.
Ner Yaakov, Jerusalem/University
of Michigan.

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Maggie Lee made this marker, set on train tracks at
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