What are our goals?
Remembering
Working through the past, giving survivors of the Holocaust a voice.
Reconciliation
Healing and restoration between victims and perpetrators, and their descendants.
Taking a stand
For Israel and against modern antisemitism.
What are we doing?
Honor: We honor the Holocaust survivors and let their voices be heard and their story told. It is important in this time when, even in the face of the overwhelming documentation by the Nazis themselves of the reality of the Holocaust, there are so many who deny that the Holocaust even happened or claim that the reports were exaggerated. This is occurring not only in countries where there is a political agenda to do so, but in the U.S. as well.
Educate: The purpose of the March is to educate a generation that is often unaware of the reality of the horrors of the Holocaust – ignorant not only of the facts of what happened during that time, but also of the attitudes and incendiary propaganda that preceded it. Those attitudes and propaganda conditioned a nation of people to stand by and be silent while the atrocities were being committed.
Remember: We remember those who were lost in the Holocaust, and those who were brave enough to stand up against the horror and to raise their voices and act.
Engage: We take to the streets in Memorial Marches, raising our voices against modern-day antisemitism, Jew hatred and any form of racism, motivating people all over the globe to take a stand and speak out.
Yom HaShoah 2026
In Germany and many other nations, remembrance of the Shoah has become an important part of public culture. But what does remembrance of 6 million murdered Jews mean when Jewish life worldwide is once again threatened by aggressive antisemitism today? What does remembrance mean when synagogues and Jewish institutions must be protected like fortresses and Jews have to be afraid to show their identity in public? What does remembrance mean when Hamas’s antisemitic propaganda, spread millions of times on social media, incites people everywhere to hatred against the largest Jewish community of our time, the State of Israel?
Remembrance means responsibility to get to the bottom of the old antisemitism in our own families, churches, cities, and culture. Remembrance means responsibility to call the new antisemitism—hatred of Israel—by its name. Remembrance means responsibility not to look away and remain silent, but to raise our voices publicly today for Jewish life and for Israel.
This is why the March of Remembrance calls on people in the US to take to the streets around the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day Yom HaShoah with the message “Remembrance means Responsibility.”
Let’s take a stand against antisemitism. Are you with us?
Join a march near you
California
Murrieta – April, 2026
New York
Rochester – April 13, 2026 at 4:45 pm EST
Texas
Houston/Kingwood – February 1, 2026 at 2:00 pm Kingwood Community Center , 4102 Rustic Woods Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345
Dallas – April 19, 2026 at 2pm CT, SMU Highes Trigg Student Center. 3140 Dyer St. Dallas
For all our registered organizers, we provide a whole range of resources and materials. Contact us to get your Starter Kit.
March of Life Conference 2026 in Tübingen, Germany
Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar: “I need you as my voice.”
The 11th International March of Life Conference in Tübingen was filled with joy over the release of the Israeli hostages and, at the same time, determination to take a stand in the face of growing hatred of Jews worldwide. Under the motto “Remembering means Responsibility. For Jewish Life and against Hatred of Israel”, thousands of people will take to the streets again in 2026. The moving conference, which included a public “Night to Honor Israel” from February 13 to 16, was the kickoff.
You can watch the “Night to Honor Israel” on YouTube.
Who we are
History of March of Remembrance
Jobst and Charlotte Bittner are the initiators of the March of Life movement. Since 2007, March of Life has organized memorial marches in more than 25 nations and over 400 cities. March of Life has different names in different nations like Marcha de la Vida in Latinamerica or Marsz Życia in Poland. In the US it is March of Remembrance.
The March of Life combines the personal working through the past with a public voice against today’s antisemitism and taking a stand for friendship with Israel.
March of Remembrance Director for Texas: Rozalie Jerome, Houston
Rozalie Jerome is our Director for Texas. She was raised in a conservative Jewish home, and is the child of Holocaust survivors who were rescued by Christians in Hungary. For almost ten years, she and her husband Mitch have been spearheading the March of Remembrance Houston for reconciliation between Jews and Christians and taking a bold stand for Israel. They are also founders of the Holocaust Remembrance Association.
March of Remembrance, National Coordinator: Claudia Kiesinger, New York
Claudia Kiesinger is the National Coordinator for March of Remembrance. She has been part of the March of Life movement since 2007 with her own personal family history as descendant of Nazi perpetrators. She is also the representative of the UN Prayer Watch, a Christian prayer and advocacy initiative at the UN for Israel.
In 2011 and 2015, March of Remembrance was honored by the Israeli Knesset for its special efforts on behalf of Holocaust survivors.
March of Remembrance is not a political statement, a rally or publicity stunt. The purpose of the march is to honor the survivors of the Holocaust. It is not a platform for publicity to promote an agenda on the part of any person or organization and is no platform for proselytizing.
How can you join us?
Join a March of Remembrance or organize your own.
Support us with your donation here.
Voices
Read what representatives of politics and Jewish life in Germany and globally have to say about the March of Remembrance
For the last years, the participants in the ‘March of Life’ have shown their friendship and
solidarity with Jews and with the Jewish state. As president of the World Jewish Congress, I know how critical such initiatives are to counter the avalanche of hatred that we often find in today’s world. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for taking such an important initiative, and I wish you much success with it.
Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress
Photo: worldjewishcongress.org
We are so grateful for your support. You stand up for Israel! Your support is a sign of true friendship between our communities.
Photo: Avi Ohayon, Government Press Office (Israel) – Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel – דוברות בית הנשיא
In the last few years, I have witnessed again and again that with their work they have created a foundation on which Christians and Jews can meet. They have created a platform on which we can speak openly about things that have been kept in silence for too many generations. They have thus created nothing less than the basis for dealing with the traumas, hardenings and fears of several generations. With their work they pave the way for a better future of Jewish-Christian relations and thus make a central contribution to Jewish life in Germany as well as to the State of Israel.
Israeli historian and Auschwitz expert
Dear friends,
Against a backdrop of growing Holocaust denial and spiking global anti-Semitism, The March of Life is an inspirational display of unity and remembrance, a vocal antidote to the complicit silence of good people, which made the Holocaust possible.
I commend your courage in engaging with dark and difficult family histories, and your insistence on directing the call of your collective conscience to advocating on behalf of Israel and Jewish communities everywhere. I look forward to the upcoming March of the Nations, which coincides with the international date of Israel’s 75th anniversary. Your presence demonstrates unwavering moral support for our nation-state and its people, and the State of Israel welcomes you with open arms.
Friends, the only way for good to triumph over the many evils perpetrated by humankind is through the intentioned actions of people of good conscience. You are true symbols of the possibility available to human beings to bravely confront their pasts and bring about healing and transformation. You are evidence that even out of unimaginable darkness can emerge the great light of compassion and friendship between nations and between men. Through your intentioned actions, you are helping histories of unspeakable crimes between man and man reincarnate into a present of compassion, justice, and truth, channeling the pain of implication in a dark and damning history to lend your voices a to the resonating imperative: “Never Again.”
I roundly applaud you.
Yours Sincerely
Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel
Past Marches of Remembrance
March of Remembrance in 2025
California
Murrieta, May 4, 2025 at 1:30pm Mesa High School Performing Arts Center, www.hrfv.org
Kentucky
Bowling Green – April 22, 2025 – 5:30pm, Christian Family Radio
New York
Rochester – April 27, 2025 – 2:00pm Cobbs Hill Park
Texas
Dallas– March 30, 2025 – 2:00pm – Southern Methodist University
Houston-Bellaire – April 27, 2025
Washington State
Woodinville – April, 2025
March of Remembrance 2024
California
Murrieta, May 5, 2025
Kentucky
Bowling Green, May 6, 2024 – Christian Family Radio
New York
Rochester – May 5, 2024 – Corners, Brighton NY
Texas
Dallas – April, 7, 2024 – Southern Methodist University
Houston, May 5, 2024
March of Remembrance in 2023
California
Murrieta, April 2023 –
Kentucky
Bowling Green, April 18, 2023 – 5.30pm, Christian Family Radio
New Jersey
Morristown, November 19 – 2pm EST, St.Elizabeth University
Trenton, April 17, 2023 – 12pm-1pm – State House Annex entrance, (145 West State St., Trenton, NJ, you are free to bring your chair
New York
Rochester – April 16, 2023 – 1:30pm 12 Corners, Brighton NY
Texas
Dallas– April 16, 2023 – 2pm – Southern Methodist University
Houston, Kingwood – April 23, 2023 – 2-5pm – Kingwood Middleschool
March of Remembrance in 2022
California
Murrieta, May 1st, 2022 – 2-5pm – Murrieta Mesa Performing Arts
New Jersey
Trenton, April 25th, 2022 – 11am-12pm – The War Memorial
New York
Rochester – May 01. 2022 – 1:30pm 12 Corners, Brighton NY
Texas
Dallas – April 24. 2022 – 2pm – Southern Methodist University
Houston, Kingwood – May 01. 2022 – 12-4pm – Kings Harbor
Arizona
Tuscon – January 26th, 2020
For more dates and places worldwide, go to: March of Life
Arizona, Prescott – Al Rodriguez abyprescott@gmail.com
Never Forget October 7 – Global Vigil October 7 at 6:29am (UTC+2) – in your respective time zone
On October 7, 2023, at 6:29 am local time, the worst pogrom against Jews since the Shoah began with the Hamas terror attack on southern Israel. 1,170 Jews, Arabs and people of other nationalities were brutally slaughtered, raped and violated. The terrorists abducted 255 people as hostages to the Gaza Strip. Many are still held in inhumane conditions in the terror tunnels.
But not only did the images of October 7 revive the worst traumas of persecution and the Shoah for many Jewish families–a wave of antisemitism and hatred of Israel gripped the streets and campuses worldwide. In some countries, Jews wonder if they can live there anymore. International institutions seem to have forgotten the events of October 7. Instead, Israel, which is fighting for its existence in Gaza, is accused of genocide in a perpetrator-victim reversal.
That is why we are calling for a global silent vigil on October 7 at 6:29 am Israel time. Exactly at the time when the brutal attack began one year ago, around the world want to simultaneously read the names of the 1,170 victims of October 7 and commemorate the destroyed villages and the fate of the people with posters. We share the grief of the Jewish people, stand with the Jewish state regardless of current politics, and raise our voices against antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
So far vigils take place in almost 100 locations worldwide. In the US in Houston, TX, Murrieta, CA and New York, NY
For NYC: meeting point Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza on October 6 at 11:20pm EST – register with us info@marchofremembrance.org
March of the Nations in Jerusalem, May 31 to June 3, 2026
March of the Nations 2026 – Update on the Security Situation
The current situation in the Middle East understandably raises questions about the possibility of holding the March of the Nations, which is scheduled to take place from May 31 to June 3, 2026, in Jerusalem and other cities of Israel.
What does this mean in practical terms for interested parties and participants? Go to www.marchofthenations.com website
‘Peace, peace, to those far and near,’ says the Lord. ‘And I will heal them.’ (Is 57:19; NIV)
After two years of war and the release of the living hostages, there is great hope for peace and a new era in Israel. But the wounds of war run deep, the shock of the wave of global hatred toward Israel remains, and the chances for lasting peace are still uncertain. During this time, Israel needs allies and friends who will stand by her side regardless of political developments!
The March of the Nations calls Christians from all nations to Israel. Many of them raise their voices for Israel with Marches of Life in their own nations, and many have confronted the painful history of antisemitism in their own families and churches. They express trough times of intense prayer and worship in Jerusalem: Peace and healing come from the LORD, the God of Israel! Through public marches in numerous cities and encounter events all throughout Israel, they show the local people: You are not alone – we are United for Life!
Since 2018, the March of the Nations has been held annually in Jerusalem. It brings together Christians from around the world to show their friendship and support for Israel. The international conference includes prayer, worship, and biblical teachings. A special highlight is the festive gala night, during which Israel and Israeli guests are honored. Afterwards, participants take part in marches and encounter events in cities across the country. There, they meet Holocaust survivors, soldiers, and others affected by October 7, carrying the message of friendship with Israel into society.
Come with us to the March of the Nations in Israel, May 31- June 3, 2026.
Never Forget October 7 – Global Vigil October 7 at 6:29am (UTC+2) – in your respective time zone
On October 7, 2023, at 6:29 am local time, the worst pogrom against Jews since the Shoah began with the Hamas terror attack on southern Israel. 1,170 Jews, Arabs and people of other nationalities were brutally slaughtered, raped and violated. The terrorists abducted 255 people as hostages to the Gaza Strip. Many are still held in inhumane conditions in the terror tunnels.
But not only did the images of October 7 revive the worst traumas of persecution and the Shoah for many Jewish families–a wave of antisemitism and hatred of Israel gripped the streets and campuses worldwide. In some countries, Jews wonder if they can live there anymore. International institutions seem to have forgotten the events of October 7. Instead, Israel, which is fighting for its existence in Gaza, is accused of genocide in a perpetrator-victim reversal.
That is why we are calling for a global silent vigil on October 7 at 6:29 am Israel time. Exactly at the time when the brutal attack began one year ago, around the world want to simultaneously read the names of the 1,170 victims of October 7 and commemorate the destroyed villages and the fate of the people with posters. We share the grief of the Jewish people, stand with the Jewish state regardless of current politics, and raise our voices against antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
So far vigils take place in almost 100 locations worldwide. In the US in Houston, TX, Murrieta, CA and New York, NY
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