The March: Bearing Witness to Hope
Who: Undergraduate and graduate students from both Nazareth and Hobart and William Smith Colleges, professors, staff, and local community members.
What: Travel to Germany and Poland to study the Holocaust under the collective guidance of Holocaust scholars, survivors, and Israeli and Polish guides. On this 10-day trip, you visit cities that were once vibrant Jewish communities, concentration and death camps engineered by the Third Reich, and historic locations commemorating acts of resistance and rescue in the face of the "final solution."
When: Monday, May 29 to Thursday, June 8, 2023.
After the trip: Participants commit to identify, confront, and transform situations of prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance, institutionally as well as inter-personally, upon return. Faculty and staff mentors from both campuses work with students to confront the ethical dilemmas, political implications, and religious questions raised by the Holocaust today.
Sample itinerary
Making the trip accessible
In 2015, the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation granted Nazareth and Hobart and William Smith Colleges endowments totaling $500,000 to offset the cost for students to participate in The March.
In 2017, friends of Nazareth, Dr. E. David and Barbara Appelbaum, established the Barbara G. Appelbaum Holocaust Education Award, an endowed fund designed to support Nazareth students committed to Holocaust awareness who are interested in participating in The March.
We are grateful to the Farash Foundation and the Appelbaums for affording our students opportunities to learn about the Holocaust in the places where it happened and to identify, confront, and transform situations of prejudice, bigotry, and intolerance, both institutionally and personally upon their return.
The March: Bearing Witness to Hope is a joint program of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Nazareth University.