A Journey Through History – The Legacy Museum, The Mothers of Gynecology Exhibit, and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice by Rhonda Green
Visiting the Legacy Museum, listening to Michele Browder and viewing her exhibit depicting the Mothers of Gynecology, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama has been a powerful, impactful, and sobering experience that confronts the deep-rooted legacy of racial injustice in America. The Legacy Museum stands on a site where enslaved […]
More Than a Story: Learning, Remembering, and Honoring the Holocaust by Anthony Kruk
Poland. A place of history. Also, memory and pain. Memory and pain not only of Poland, but the world. Every day there are less and less holocaust survivors, so the memory of the horrific event needs to live on through others who can teach and stop this from happening again. I have now been in […]
A Poem by Kelly Weston
How windy it is today – Blowing us off course as if to say Don’t go there. You don’t want to see. Yet we are teachers We MUST see – so that we can share. We walk past the quote Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. How do we […]
Seeing Selflessness in Times of Cruelty by Katie Robinson
I find myself being drawn to stories of selflessness in times of cruelty. When studying the Holocaust how can you not? Focusing on numbers, destruction, perpetrators, and hatred doesn’t leave much room for hope in the world. But then you come across stories and testimonies of goodness–extreme goodness. Janusz Korczak, or Henryk Goldszmit as the former name […]
Selma: A Turning Point by Virginia Hill
My visit to Selma felt like a Matrix moment. Do I take the red pill or the blue one? The choice wasn’t just about learning history, it was about waking up to a deeper truth. I thought of Dr. King’s final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? The title alone echoed through my heart as […]
Sunday’s Best, History’s Worst: Lessons from Selma by Matt Marraway
As we conclude our third day, I find myself reflecting deeply on this experience, and I cannot thank CWB enough. The knowledge and insight gained through these programs are truly unmatched. Meeting individuals who actually marched and hearing their personal stories brought to life events I have taught in the classroom for years. These experiences […]
June 24, 2025 — Selma, Alabama by Jamie Baron Campbell
“I wasn’t following Dr. King. Do you understand? I was not following them. I was WITH them.And there’s a difference,” Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest person who took part in thecrossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965. She was fourteen.Over lunch today, Dr. Lowery told us about hearing Dr. Martin […]
A Concentration Camp? by Lisa Tetrault
The scale of the killing at Treblinka – the Nazi Concetration Camp outside Warsaw visited yesterday – defies comprehension—as well as its name. The facts are clear enough. Designed to gas and kill 6,000 people in just under two hours. A system the Nazis had scaled up through clear-eyed experimentation. The trains rolled in throughout […]
Echoes of Memory: Carrying the Legacy of Holocaust Witnesses Across Generations by Matt O’Brien
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 of consolation and hope, however. First, we are not alone in our efforts to honor the legacy of those who have come before us. Second, listening to […]