Venice by Avi Ben Hur
My senses were overloaded by so much wealth and power that was concentrated for centuries in the hands of a small city-state on the northern edge of the Adriatic sea.
Discovering Italy: Crossroads of Culture, Heritage and History Italy Day 2: Padua and Ferrara
Padua is a very ancient city with roots that reach far back into antiquity. It is home to a famous university that at one point was the only one to accept Jewish students.
Discovering Italy: Crossroads of Culture, Heritage and History: Venice July 12th by Meg Frank
We learned that at the time the synagogues were built in the 16th century, Jews were not permitted to be architects so they were designed by Christians.
Ghetto Wall- Warsaw by Starlo Galetta
I learned her hopes and dreams and it seemed I knew her.
Reflection by Teresa McCombs
“And now a prayer—or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all or heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.” – Elie Wiesel, Night
Reflection by Michael Shaughnessy
a stark reminder of the 4 million refugees in Poland right now and the importance of making connections to the past to inform our knowledge of the present.
A Short Reflection by Michelle Szydlowski
A strikingly beautiful doe raced across the field where jagged trenches, now covered in grass, marked the site where thousands of human lives were stolen.
Hidden History: by Michelle Szydlowski
Perhaps living in an area with such a heavy history requires local inhabitants to compartmentalize the past to function in the present.
Poland Seminar Day 1- June 26 By Michele Russo
The power of their writing is a witness to what happened and was also used in actual trials as evidence of Nazi war crimes.