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Max Iland, a teacher from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is surrounded and comforted by his children, Yaacov and Hannah, in Auschwitz-Birkenau where Max’s mother and his three-year-old brother, Kopel, were murdered.
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“We were marching in Auschwitz- Birkenau, and we saw Max was alone. So we decided to go over to comfort him. We each took one of his strong arms – and marched with him. As we approached the gates, I asked him,
‘What happened to your family?’ “He stopped, his eyes filled with
tears, and he just pointed down. He said one word: ‘Here.’ That’s all he had to say – we knew. ‘Here’ was where his family was murdered.”
—Aria Smorden, 15, March of the Living, 2013
