March of the Living honors medical workers battling COVID-19
LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press
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1of20People stand still as a two-minute siren sounds in memory of victims of the Holocaust, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Holocaust remembrance day is one of the most solemn on Israel s calendar with restaurants and places of entertainment shut down, and radio and TV programming focused on Holocaust documentaries and interviews with survivors.Oded Balilty/APShow MoreShow Less
2of20An Israeli stands as sirens mark a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 8, 2021.Sebastian Scheiner/APShow MoreShow Less
His mother was right: Now, Artal, 78, is a retired obstetrician himself. I ve heard that story so many times, I could become nothing else but a doctor, he chuckled during a recent interview from his Los Angeles-area home.
By birth and by choice, he personifies the theme of this year’s International March of the Living an educational program that coincides with Israel’s annual Holocaust memorial day.
Thousands of people usually take part in the march on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, which had been run by Germany, in Poland. But for a second year in a row, Wednesday’s event took place virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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President Reuven Rivlin (center) and others take part in the virtual March of the Living ceremony, April 8, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)
Like so many other mothers, Raul Artal’s mom insisted that he was going to be a doctor.
But there was a history and heroism behind her ambitions for him. A determined Jewish doctor in a concentration camp in 1943 delivered Artal in a barn, despite his feet-first position and saved the lives of both mother and son.
His mother was right: Now Artal, 78, is a retired obstetrician himself.
“I’ve heard that story so many times, I could become nothing else” but a doctor, he chuckled during a recent interview from his Los Angeles-area home.
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Like so many mothers, Raul Artal’s insisted that her son was going to be a doctor.
But there was a history – and heroism – behind her ambitions for him. A determined Jewish doctor in a concentration camp in 1943 delivered Artal in a barn, despite his feet-first position – and saved the lives of both mother and son.
March of the Living honours medical workers battling COVID-19
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JERUSALEM – Like so many mothers, Raul Artal’s insisted that her son was going to be a doctor.
But there was a history – and heroism – behind her ambitions for him. A determined Jewish doctor in a concentration camp in 1943 delivered Artal in a barn, despite his feet-first position – and saved the lives of both mother and son.
His mother was right: Now, Artal, 78, is a retired obstetrician himself.
“I’ve heard that story so many times, I could become nothing else” but a doctor, he chuckled during a recent interview from his Los Angeles-area home.