Jackie Golblum
Leaving the oppressive summer heat wave and descending into the Wieliczka Salt Mine was pure, blissful relief. The drop in temperature felt like a cool exhale as the scorching surface world melted away, […]
Today’s free day in Krakow was a much needed respite from the heaviness we experienced over the past week. After morning reflection and collaboration sessions with our peers, each person […]
“Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you […]
I can’t believe it’s been six days since first arriving in Poland. I could have postedreflections earlier, because there’s been so much ground covered every single day. I’mglad I waited […]
At Auschwitz I, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the scale of what happened. The numbers are almost too large for students, or for any of us, to fully […]
Visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau was one of the most profound and emotionally challenging experiences of my career as a history teacher. Standing in the place where over a million innocent people were […]
As we get off the bus and use the restrooms, I look around to make sure I have the kids that I’ve considered mine all week. They aren’t mine of […]
At first, when you enter Auschwitz, it does not feel real. The images are too familiar: the gate, the railway tracks, the brick buildings, the barbed wire. They have been […]
The house stands at 88 Legionów Street in Oświęcim, just on the other side of the camp’s walls. It is the former home of Rudolf Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz […]
As we visited the Ghetto of Heroes Square today in the heart of Krakow, I was reminded of the valuable assets of public art. We often think of art as […]