Martin Baranak Toronto. ON
Martin is one of many survivors involved with the March of the Living. The March of the Living is an annual educational program which brings students from Canada and around the world to Poland, to understand the Holocaust by going to where it happened. On Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah), participants march silently from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest and most lethal Nazi concentration camp. I greatly admire the courage of those, like Martin, who risk facing their trauma head on for the education and betterment of others. After the war, some desperate times in Italy living on the street, and finding his way eventually to Israel with another boy (the only 2 boys to survive out of 4000 Jews), Martin happily discovered that his mother had survived the war and was living in Canada.
“None of us are normal.”
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