Warsaw (Janet) – Poland Personally 2017
By: Janet Eppoliti Today we toured the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw. It was beautiful. Most cemeteries are on vast, manicured lawns, peppered with headstones, flowers, and wreaths. But the Cemetery here in Warsaw was in a wooded area. Trees seemed to compete with tombstones for space, and as I looked into the forest, the grave […]
Warsaw (Josh) – Poland Personally
By: Joshua Andy Returning to Poland with Classrooms Without Borders is an opportunity to continue to add to my repertoire of individual stories of those who were victims of the Holocaust, those who were bystanders, those who collaborated with the Nazi occupation, and those who perpetrated the brutal acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. […]
Arriving – Poland Personally 2017
By: Cheryl Martin We arrived early yesterday afternoon in Warsaw and immediately met up with the early arrivals from CWB at the Poland Museum of Jewish History. Met a small group including Tsipy Gur, the founder of CWB, and went on a two hour tour of the museum learning about the history of the Jewish population […]
Day 6 | Letters from the Children’s Village 2017
Written By: Alexandra Friedlander In the morning, we drove to a Bedouin home. Bedouins are a subgroup within the Arab minority in Israel and have a cultural, historical, social and political uniqueness. In the Bedouin home, we ate a delicious breakfast of eggs, falafel, vegetables, and pita. We also went inside a real Bedouin tent […]
Day 5 | Letters from the Children’s Village 2017
Written By: Katherine Kunkle We ate a quick breakfast, and jumped into the van to head to an area that looked over the valley, where we were told the story of Jesus’s birth. We then took the bus to a small Orthodox Church in Nazareth. At the church, we quickly discussed the history of the church […]
Day 4 | Letters from the Children’s Village 2017
Written By: Lauren Levy and Anna Elias This morning after breakfast at the Children’s Village, we left for Holon, which is a city right outside of Tel Aviv. We arrived at the Museum of the Blind a little before 10:30, where we drank coffee and waited for our tour in the dark to begin. Our […]
Day 3 | Letters from the Children’s Village 2017
Written by: all participants We ate a quick breakfast, and hopped into the van. First, we drove to a Druze school, called Beirut Jann. At the school, we spoke with the students and learned a bit about the Druze culture. Then, we got a tour of the school and made some new friends with the students […]
Day 2 | Letters from the Children’s Village 2017
Written by: Alexandra Friedlander We ate a quick breakfast of yogurt and tea and rushed out to the buses. We drove to the center of Karmiel to see some Bedouin communities. It was very interesting to see how they lived. Then, we drove to two Holocaust memorials. One of the memorials had three parts all […]
Day 1 | Letters from the Children’s Village 2017
Written by: Alexandra Friedlander We woke up and ate a delicious egg breakfast. Afterwards, we drove to Rosh Hanikra, which is a beautiful geologic cliff formation on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Western Galilee. Rosh Hanikra borders Lebanon, and many missiles have been shot shot from Lebanon into Israel via Rosh Hanikra. At […]