Jackie Golblum
Our tours of three of the seven synagogues in Krakow, our lecture with Jonathan Ornstein, and our walk around the Krakow Ghetto serves as a reminder to do something rather […]
Majdanek is not a word heard very often when discussing the Holocaust and camps. I did not learn about Majdanek until my teacher went on the trip and brought his […]
It was a third stop on a long hot day, the last before the long drive to Krakow where we ate dinner and checked into our hotel for the night. […]
Every time I teach my Europe after 1945 class, there comes the time when I talk about the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. I always show a short […]
There are some places where you don’t learn history. You experience it. Today we visited Majdanek. Before coming to Poland, I had read about Majdanek. I’ve taught about the Holocaust […]
Consumed by the fires of hatred, clouds of smoky ash, once precious human lives, rose from this valley of death, crying out in agony. As they drift back to earth, […]
We walked freely on the paths and through the same doorways that brought thousands to their deaths. I looked out of the windows and saw the same scene that those […]
Our journey brought us to Łańcut, a town defined by a profound contrast between aristocratic grandeur and sacred Jewish memory. We began by walking through a breathtaking, sprawling park where […]
Driving through the Polish forest under a brilliant blue sky, my mind drifts back to the very beginning of this journey at the POLIN Museum, specifically to the old Jewish […]
Does the grass know? Do the dandelions whisper the memory of the restless souls of the departed? The beauty of nature holds the space for their stories. When the birds […]