BASED ON AN ACCLAIMED EXHIBIT OF PHOTOGRAPHS LAUNCHED AT
THE UNITED NATIONS
SO WRONG
I want the trees to break and fall
The grass to wither and die
I want the sky to turn black as night
The sun to go and hide
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.
—Daniella Weber,
March of the Living, 1992
Available in:
English, Hebrew,
Spanish, and Polish,
and a Special Edition print in 2020
In 2020, a special edition of the book was published in conjunction with “Liberation 75,” an international Holocaust education initiative commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII and the liberation of Europe from Nazi tyranny.
This edition includes a section on liberation stories dealing with the accounts of mainly Canadian Holocaust survivors from this pivotal period, an afterword by Steven Spielberg, founder of the USC Shoah Foundation, content from Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis related to the March of the Living, and additional stories concerning the actions of the Righteous Among the Nations.
“I am a strong believer that we must tell the stories to the youngsters – they are going to be our witnesses. But please present them in a way, with the kind of emotions, that will not create the same hatred that was done to us.”
“After learning there were people today denying the Holocaust …. “I said there and then, I would crawl on my hands and knees all the way to Auschwitz-Birkenau, or anywhere else, to tell my story to anyone willing to listen. This is why I march and why I still speak. ”