Dear friends, can you feel it?
An era of peace will soon be born.
May we all assist in her birth.
Women in White: Reverse Dachau Death March, for Peace
12–16 February 2026
Imagine… a granddaughter of
a Holocaust survivor
was held by German women,
felt safe — and for the first time,
experienced direct healing
for the intergenerational trauma
within her.*
What if we could ease old pain and make way for peace with the medicines of presence, friendship, choice, care, and soft miracles?
Come walk vibrantly with us this February, in a live, authentic expression of peace, healing, and reconciliation.
A small group of Women in White and supporters will gather near the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, to strengthen sisterhood and peace by wearing all white, accompanying each other with singing and safe touch, and walking, together, portions of the Dachau Death March in reverse.
We will have up to 10 residential spaces available for overnight participants, and up to 50 short-term roles available for local supporters.
What leads us here?
Courageous friendship, and devotion to durable peace.
One of our members, Katie Loncke, descends from a maternal Jewish Opa (grandfather), Emil Spitz, who barely survived the Death March from Dachau. Another non-Jewish member, Susanne Kraft, happens to live not far from the route of this very same march.
Together, in service of the shared vision of Women in White, we are conspiring to host this embodied expression of friendship, reconciliation, and freedom from the traumas of the past.
Within two months of sharing this, Katie connected empathically with Jewish Israeli women ~ including a mother whose son was killed on 7 October ~ and also volunteered in the West Bank with the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, serving as unarmed protective presence by request of Palestinian families leading nonviolent co-resistance.
At Women In White, we follow a vision of building peace, stopping war, and loving no matter what.
We Choose Peace
Sadly, as the recent Chanukah massacre in Australia shows, the world still suffers from anti-Jewish violence.
And yet, there are many of us Jews throughout the globe who refuse to allow anti-Jewish hatred, or even danger, to push us into violence ourselves.
We choose peace.
We choose Life.
We choose friendship.
Friendship brave enough to bridge divides. Friendship strong enough to help us face our greatest fears. Friendship soft and gentle enough to wash away the terror tattooed in our bones over millennia.
Susanne and other women in white embrace Katie, everyone feeling and healing.
Women in White is a global sisterhood faithfully learning how to build peace, stop war, and love no matter what.
The peace we long for is not a mere truce born of fear, exhaustion, or calculation. Rather, it is a peace that spreads like a sweet flowering across the world. A peace so deep, so strong, so durable, that it can last hundreds or thousands of years — benefiting not just human beings, but animals, plants, rivers, oceans, and the more-than-human world.
Courageous Friendship: Key to Peace
Courageous friendship is one of our best threads for weaving durable peace.
“Courageous friendships” — besides Jews and Germans, these are also bonds between Ukrainians and Russians, Palestinians and Israelis, Indians and Pakistanis… all are welcome in February who come in this spirit, if we mutually sense alignment with the purpose of peace.
If you would like to join us, please send an email to: susanne@ambula.de
The world needs peace, and
peace needs you.
Does this call to you?
Will you join us?
Women in White, Courageous Friendship for Peace
Dachau and Munich, Germany
For more information, please email: susanne@ambula.de
Sample Itinerary ~ Subject to Change
Wednesday Feb 11
Arrive, Evening Opening
Lodging: Susanne’s Apartment
Thursday Feb 12
Activity: Women in White Peace March
Location: Dachau, Reverse Death March, Part 1
Lodging: Susanne’s Apartment
Friday Feb 13
Activity: Women in White Peace March
Location: Dachau, Reverse Death March, Part 2
Lodging: Susanne’s Apartment
Saturday Feb 14
Activity: Women in White Peace March
Location: Dachau, Reverse Death March, Part 3
– OR –
Activity: Women in White Healing Violence Against Witches
Location: Dorfen, Special Hill
Lodging: Susanne Seminar rooms
Sunday Feb 15
Activity: Women in White Peace March
Location: Dachau, Reverse Death March, Part 4
– OR –
Activity: Women in White Healing Violence Against Witches
Location: Dorfen, Special Hill
Lodging: Susanne Seminar rooms
Monday Feb 16
Activity: Women in White Sharing Nonviolence
Location: may be : Munich, 24th International Peace Conference (angefragt)
Lodging: Susanne’s Apartment
Evening closing
Tuesday Feb 17
Depart
Lodging: each arranges her / their own.
Food, lodging, travel, and other needs during the gathering will be shared on a peace-oriented, give-what-you-can basis. Participants will arrange for our own travel and accommodations before and after the gathering.
If peace is asking you to come, please don’t let finances be a barrier! Reach out and we will explore options together.
Learn more about their work in Women in White Resources.
Can’t Come But Want to Support Peace?
Donate to Women in White!
Give internationally via Transformi, making a clear tag: for Women in White.
Transformi Foundation
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Once our basic costs are covered for this gathering, 5% of any extra will go to Combatants for Peace, and another 5% will go to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence.
Our most recent internal fundraiser flowed toward women’s peace organizing in East Africa, including a powerful Sudanese peace leader, mother, and sacred activist.
As always, our care and gratitude flows to all those working for peace: seen and unseen, known and unknown.
Thank You for all you are doing and being:
in peace, for peace!
* Although the subject of this story identifies as non-binary and uses they / them pronouns, for ease of understanding and accessibility across language, they gently agreed to be referred to as a woman. 🙂