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ALL I CAN DO
I want to hug that person, but all I will feel is a gravestone. I want to return it upright, but the stone stands crooked. History stays put and all I can do is remember.
—Marni Levitt, 15, March of the Living, 1990
I felt a deep sense of loss in Poland; a loss in humanity for the sacredness of life. My faith in the human race deteriorated a little more with each death camp we visited. [But] my deep sense of loss was accompanied by something greater; something that restored my faith.
It was accompanied by hope [which I found] in my fellow participants. Each of my companions has a gift of giving
me the ability to attempt to make a difference.... The camp [Auschwitz-Birkenau] that was once run by savage murderers was now overcome by people who condemned such acts of evil.
This gave me hope that one day we shall overcome. I hope that it does the same for you.
—Trisha Lynn Cowie, Irish-Ojibway Canadian, March of Remembrance and Hope
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