Sarah Grand
Yesterday on social media I encountered a Holocaust denier. He spouted ugly words on my post about Dachau, laughing at the deaths of millions of Jews. I struggle to understand […]
We started our first day by having the opportunity to introduce ourselves which was certainly a good ice-breaker. This was followed by our visit to Ohel Jakob Synagogue where we […]
How does a country move on after such a tragic event? Is it better to rebuild by looking to the past or by looking to the future? Those are the […]
How do you stand up to hate? As an English teacher in Pittsburgh Public Schools, I watch many of my students wrestle with this question. For some, their communities have […]
In preparing for this trip, I braced myself for the complex cocktail of experience that I imagined would come with entering a concentration camp: the incomprehensibility of humanity’s ability to […]
I am sitting here, home from Poland for exactly one week, still trying to process the experience. When I was completing the evaluation for the trip, one question asked for […]
This week has brought intense contemplations about human mortality, and the prospect of losing the voices of holocaust survivors seems doubly tragic. Last night’s panel of second-generation survivors brought two sources […]
To next year’s Poland Personally participants: get ready for an unforgettable experience, one that will change how you teach, think, and live. From June 20–30, I traveled alongside nearly 90 […]
Final thought: That flower to me represents the many things that we all can share aswe return to our classrooms to educate the next generation.
As I sit in my hotel room in Warsaw reflecting on this journey, I’m struggling to find the right words to make sense of everything I’ve seen and heard. The […]