Zbylitowska Gor Mass Graves – By Edda Fields-Black
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. But, this stop was an important complement to what we had seen so far in helping us understand the Jewish experience during the Holocaust. The Zbylitowska […]
MDFR: Freedom’s Road and the Responsibility to Remember
by Camryn Camp 6/24/2026 Throughout the past four days of the Marching Down Freedom’s Road trip, I have gained a deeper understanding of the history of the Civil Rights Movement while discovering an overarching lesson that extends far beyond the events themselves: educating young people through overlooked stories has the power to shape a more […]
Marching Down Freedom’s Road: “The only way forward is through.”
by Samantha Stewart Within the first few steps of entering The Legacy Museum, visitors are emotionally drawn into the narrative of the enslavement to incarceration legacy. There, on the floor-to-ceiling screen is the moving image and sounds of roaring, violent Atlantic Ocean waves beneath an ominous sky so convincing that my body did not comprehend […]
Marching Down Freedom’s Road: Seeing My Story In History
By: Dalashay Williams Today, as part of the Marching Down Freedom’s Road Seminar with Classrooms Without Borders, I walked through The Legacy Museum in Montgomery. I expected to learn history, but what I did not expect was to see pieces of my own life reflected throughout the exhibits. Many discussions of mass incarceration are related […]
Zbylitowska Gora Mass Graves – By Joerg Neuheiser
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 CNN report about the massacre in Srebrenica in July 1995. In the video, students see men being marched to a forest, forced to lay down […]
Wednesday, June 24: By Christine Roe
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 for years, but there is a difference between knowing something happened and standing where it happened. One of the first things I did was reach […]
Majdanek Extermination Camp: Can you feel the smoky ashes? By Peter Bower
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, they refuse to be silenced; their voices pierce our days and haunt our nights. Can you hear the smoky ashes? Listen more closely. Can you […]
Wednesday, June 24: By Margaret Reed
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 being led to the “showers” saw. Unlike them, I was guaranteed to view it again from the outside. Why were these mothers, fathers, children, and […]
Written in Pencil, Preserved in Stone – By Travis Lear
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 the magnificent Potocki Palace sits elevated on a hill. Surrounded by old-growth trees and vibrant flower gardens, it was the estate of one of Poland’s […]