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March of the Living 2004 through the lense of Toronto, Canadian participant Shai Spetgang [email protected]

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March of the Living 2004through the lense of Toronto, Canadian participant

Shai [email protected]

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A timeless march The reflection of the row of Israeli flagsleading the Canadian contingent on TheMarch of the Living from Auschwitz to

Birkenau.Auschwitz, Poland, April 7, 1994

(Yom Hashoah)

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These shoes were made for walking and that's what they should have donePart of the 800,000 pairs of shoes held

in three barracks.Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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The depth of destructionA sample barrack at Majdanek.

Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Not just another tombstone in the wallThe first image that one sees from thegates of the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery.

Warsaw, Poland, April 5, 1994

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Pandora's BarrackThe lock that remains on Majdanek's

first barrack.Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Cycle of Destruction I - The Undressing RoomPart of the wall in section one ofMajdanek's first gas chamber.

Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Cycle of Destruction II - Shower RoomPart of the real shower room.

Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Cycle of Destruction III – DeathThe Gas Chamber.

The blue hue (ceiling) is all that remainsof the Zyclone-B gas that stole

thousands' last breath.Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Found separately and symbolically put togetherMajdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Then, a quick death from Zyclone-B,today a slow one from pollution

Majdanek and Lublin.Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Did these tracks take mygrandparents away?

In many parts of the city, trolley tracksstand as remnants of the network which

shipped human beings to the death camps.

A view of modern day Warsaw.Warsaw, Poland, April 10, 1994

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Where Majdanek meets someone's back yardToday houses come right up to the fence

of this death camp.Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Crooked parallelismWhat remains of Nazi efficiency.

Planks of wood strewn next to "Shower Room II".

Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Renovated Jewish light in WarsawInside the newly renovated and onlyremaining synagogue in Warsaw;

The Nozyk synagogue.Warsaw, Poland, April 10, 1994

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The flight of lifeA crane flying free in the Golan Heights.Remains of a Syrian barrack lie below.

The Golan Heights, April 11, 1994

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The flow of WaterA Roman aqueduct next to a modern day amphitheatre at the

Ghetto Fighters‘ Kibbutz in Northern Israel. Haifa, a port city, watches from a distance.

Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz, Israel, April 11, 1994

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Into the LightThe Valley of the communities at Yad Vashem.

Part of the memorial to the 5,000 JewishCommunities that were destroyed during

the Holocaust in Europe.Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, April 17, 1994

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Ready to come full circleThe Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., U.S.A., May 23, 1994

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Poised to build on the pastA bird on a nail at the Western Wall.

Coming full circle for peace in troubled times.The Western Wall, Old City of Jerusalem, Israel, April 12, 1994

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Bringing the pulse of the past into the futureTreblinka, where nothing remains, butthe future. Stones of various sizes havebeen erected to symbolize the destroyed

Jewish Communities of Europe.Treblinka, Poland, April 10, 1994

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This is who we areThe Ontario contingent of the March of

the Living, 150 strong.Majdanek, Lublin, Poland, April 8, 1994

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Passing the Torch

Robert Weiss, Z"L, a Holocaust Survivor accompanied the Toronto contingent of the March of the Living, 1994.

Toronto, Canada, August 1996

The Hebrew Alphabet is now complete.

Thank-you for taking this journey.