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Mayer Schondorf shared his story with teen students on the March of the Living in
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Mayer died in 2009.
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Bill Glied (pictured with his granddaughter on the March of the Living) was born in Subotica, Serbia, and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944 with his entire family. He never saw his mother or sister again.
“They just disappeared from my life – I didn’t get to say good-bye.”
Stones of Memory
“There is a unique and noble custom in the Jewish religion.
We go to the cemetery and find the graves of our loved ones.
Then we take a small stone and place it on the tombstone to say,
‘We are here. We haven’t forgotten you. We love you. We remember you.’
“In Auschwitz there are
no tombstones. All those who perished here – my mother, my sister, my whole family – they have no monuments. But all of you who are standing here today, you are the little stones, and you are saying, ‘We are here. We haven’t forgotten you. We love you.’”
—Bill Glied, March of the Living, 2009