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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: May 2011

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Monday, May 30, 2011. I thought I would share with you some of the poems that were written by fellow participants of MRH 2011 during our debriefing sessions following each Camp visit. This trip sparked much creativity and I look forward to seeing what we all do with that in the future. Poem by Devin Heroux, Saskatoon:. Just when there were no more tears, there were tears. Just when there was belief, there was disbelief. Just when the suffering had stopped, they suffered.

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: "Every time we speak, we lose a night's sleep."

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Friday, January 27, 2012. Every time we speak, we lose a night's sleep.". Each survivor spoke of something different - the troubles of telling your story (Michael Falk - who I quoted in my title), what it was like to grow up in a Christian family/orphanage despite being Jewish (David Corn), what it was like to be smuggled across borders (Natan Nevo), and finally, Philip Riteman told his story - of life in Auschwitz, being liberated, and how he came to Nova Scotia. There wa...

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: A few announcements..

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Hello everyone and Happy 2012! The beautiful Wannsee Villa, Berlin, where the horrors of the. It's hard to believe that just a year ago I was anxiously awaiting a reply from MRH on their selection process, hoping my application made it on time. In November 2012 for application forms. My apologies. However, if you are in the Halifax area and would like to be inspired, I have some exciting news! I do hope to see you there. View my complete profile.

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: November 2011

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Sunday, November 27, 2011. Pride in my Hometown. Tonight, I am very proud of my hometown of Fredericton, and even more so of two grade six classes at Ecole St Anne - the francophone school in the city. The article speaks for itself, and I strongly urge you to take the time to read it. I will be speaking to these classes on my experiences traveling overseas to sites such as Auschwitz, upon returning home at Christmas time. Monday, November 21, 2011. I'm interested in hearin...

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: "You're living in Heaven and you don't even know it"

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Monday, April 11, 2011. You're living in Heaven and you don't even know it". As I mentioned in a previous post, and as my very supportive mother mentioned in her blog. I had the opportunity to contact and meet with Philip Riteman, who spent his teenage years in five different concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Philip's book, Millions of Souls. For more information on Millions of Souls,. Once you choose hope, anything's possible" - Christopher Reeve. Daily Gleaner ar...

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: December 2011

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Saturday, December 3, 2011. We will never forget. It is with this blog post that I congratulate a fellow MRH participant, and thank all of you! First of all, I have surpassed 7,000 blog views! Thank you all so much for supporting me and following me on this journey - I'm so thankful for my readers and for having an audience to write to and share information with. Or perhaps they were given a name that had immense religious or cultural importance. What meaning did ones&...

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: March 2011

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Thursday, March 31, 2011. I am speaking for millions who cannot speak". And I hope I can do the same. I take that quote from this. Website, from a presentation by Philip Riteman. Where there others that had yet to leave this world, but were buried alive in these trenches? When it is no more authentic, but needing reconstruction? Will there be that feeling of presence? We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same" - Anne Frank.

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: January 2012

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Saturday, January 28, 2012. It was such an honour to be in the presence of so many Holocaust survivors the other evening. Specifically, Philip Riteman. Friday, January 27, 2012. Every time we speak, we lose a night's sleep.". David also spoke about returning to the orphanage where he was in hiding during the war. The Lutheran Evangelical orphanage books showed that 26 of 70 children were Jews in hiding. Beside each of their names, in pencil, was "non-Aryan." Th...There was...

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: June 2011

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Never Again.yet, again. The Holocaust may be the main focus or train of thought when one hears the word "genocide". It is not, however, the only genocide. The March of Remembrance and Hope focuses on this era in history as we can see anti-semitism prevalent in modern society, still, and because the Holocaust touched so many different groups; gays, lesbians, Jews, soldiers, handicapped, Roma, everyday civilians, different races, religions, etc. 1 Cam...

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011: April 2011

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Pilgrimage to Poland: MRH 2011. Tuesday, April 19, 2011. I've been busy running around doing things for the trip; doctors appointments, needles, buying this and that, organizing this, completing that.and also adding some movies and reading materials to my list of "To Do" before 14 May, on top of the two exams I still have to write! The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary. Maus I and II (Art Spiegelman). War and Genocide: A concise history of the Holocaust (Doris L. Bergen). Through...