Ateret Cope
I had planned to blog every day, but I hadn’t accounted for the emotions that would hit me when we went to Treblinka and Majdanek. I have been teaching about […]
I’m not sure what I expected on this trip. I’ve been studying the Holocaust and World War II since I was in the fifth grade. Never once did it ever […]
Hello, I composed this blog while on our early bus ride from Warsaw to Lublin. It is now 12:08am and currently I am one day behind on the progress of […]
This morning the educators and students walked through parts of Warsaw, a city that was 85% destroyed during the war. The wealth of archived historical information allowed us to learn […]
We arrived in Warsaw, tired and hungry, but eager to begin our journey. The educators and students went to their separate buses and headed to the Jewish cemetery and then […]
It’s 2:30 am here in Warsaw and despite the fact that I’m truly learning exactly what the meaning of “jet lag” is, I find myself wide awake. We’ve been in […]
Thankfully, after delays…I can report that the planes have landed, the first day of touring has concluded, and we have had our welcome dinner. It is 10:50 in Poland and […]
When you visit Temple Mount, you are visiting a place so holy that, in ancient times, only the highest Jewish priest was allowed to visit once a year. And you […]
It is widely known that trains and train stations had a traumatic effect on the Jewish people. Even the movie Paperclips honors Shoah deaths by collecting 6 million Paperclips in a […]