Editing Elie Wiesel (section)

== March of the Living ==
The [[March of the Living]] is an annual educational program that has brought over 300,000 participants from around the world to Poland, where they visit historical sites of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]], make a two-mile trek from [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]] to the former extermination site of [[Birkenau]]. Students learn about the experience through live testimony from survivors. Wiesel participated in the first March of the Living in 1988, during its founding year. Wiesel also attended in 1990, and in 2005, during the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. Wiesel addressed over 18,000 in attendance. It was the biggest event in the program's history .<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=O. U. |date=2016-07-06 |title=Rabbi Lau: Elie Wiesel was a man of tremendous faith |url=https://www.ou.org/rabbi-lau-eli-weisel-man-tremendous-faith/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=Orthodox Union |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=MOTLorg |date=2023-04-11 |title=The International March of the Living's 35th anniversary – interview - International March of the Living |url=https://www.motl.org/the-international-march-of-the-livings-35th-anniversary-interview/#:~:text=Rosenman%20has%20attended%20every%20March,had%20not%20yet%20been%20accomplished.%E2%80%9D |access-date=2025-01-02 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-05-06 |title=A 'March of the Living' for the Holocaust dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/world/europe/a-march-of-the-living-for-the-holocaust-dead.html#:~:text=The%2018th%20March%20of%20the%20Living,%20which%20began,anniversary%20of%20the%20end%20of%20World%20War%20II |access-date=2025-01-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Auschwitz March to Recall Holocaust Victims – DW – 05/04/2005 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/auschwitz-march-to-recall-holocaust-victims/a-1573658 |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref>

On the 1990 March of the Living, Elie Wiesel addressed the participants at Auschwitz about his concerns about antisemitism. He stated, "We were convinced that [[antisemitism]] perished here. Antisemitism did not perish here; its victims perished here." He started to share a story of a young girl, paused, and left the stage. The footage stated Wiesel was simply unable to continue the story.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQHwt40OmWE&ab_channel=JewishRemembrance |title=The Day Words Failed Elie Wiesel - Auschwitz-Birkenau 1990 March of the Living |date=2011-12-12 |last=Jewish Remembrance |access-date=2025-01-02 |via=YouTube}}</ref> The corroborating article from Eli Rubenstein, who was in attendance that day described that even "the world's most eloquent witness to the Holocaust," was not able to convey the story that led to the fate of this young girl.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MOTLorg |date=2016-07-27 |title=THE DAY WORDS FAILED ELIE WIESEL - International March of the Living |url=https://www.motl.org/the-day-words-failed-elie-wiesel/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |language=en-US}}</ref> 

in 2017, Wiesel's son, Elisha participated in the [[March of the Living]] in memory of his father, honoring his legacy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MOTLorg |date=2017-05-12 |title=Elie Wiesel's Only Son Steps Up to His Father's Legacy - International March of the Living |url=https://www.motl.org/elie-wiesels-only-son-steps-up-to-his-fathers-legacy/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |language=en-US}}</ref> Since his father's passing, he has spoken at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Auschwitz, and has begun working on his late father's foundation, the Elie Wiesel Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards and Honors |url=https://eliewieselfoundation.org/about-elisha-wiesel/#:~:text=In%20the%20last%20few%20years,of%20upholding%20DACA;%20organized%20a |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity |language=en-US}}</ref>

Wiesel is included in the publication ''[[Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations]].'' Along with his picture from when he was imprisoned at [[Buchenwald concentration camp|Buchenwald]], he was quoted from the 1990 [[March of the Living]]: <ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Rubenstein |first=Eli |title=Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust to New Generations |publisher=[[Second Story Press]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-927583-89-0 |edition=1 |location=Canada |pages=5 |language=En}}</ref>

{{Quotes|text="Forever will I see the children who no longer have the strength to cry. Forever will I see the elderly who no longer have the strength to help them. Forever will I see the mothers and the fathers, the grandfathers and grandmothers, the little schoolchildren…their teachers…the righteous and the pious…. From where do we take the tears to cry over them? Who has the strength to cry for them?"|author=Elie Wiesel|title=Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations|source=Page 5}}