Poland
We arrived in Poland on Sunday, June 18, and opened with a lovely dinner in our hotel. We were greeted by Tsipy, then heard from the local Chabad Rabbi and […]
They arrived to this land at the calling of birds. Polin, polin, rest here. Here, enclosed beneath the trees, row after row the headstones stand silent, angled this way and that […]
Stalin famously said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of ten million is a statistic.” I knew going in that it would be nearly impossible to […]
Today’s tour had a consistent theme: “thou shalt not be indifferent.” These words, delivered by survivor Marian Turski in a speech commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, […]
I thought I was prepared. This encompasses so much I thought I was prepared to travel. It’s been years since I’ve been on a plane but I haven’t been on […]
Today was my first full day in Poland. To say the least . . . it was powerful. Before I get into what we did, I just want to say […]
On April 11, please join CWB Participant Alumni from Carnegie Mellon University for a presentation featuring Stephen Brockmann: Poland Personally and Holocaust Remembrance: Experiences of Students and Faculty Touring Holocaust […]
The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new three part series marking the 75th Anniversary of the Jewish Historical Institute The Oneg Shabbat Archives and Beyond: Documenting and […]