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Wednesday, June 24: By Christine Roe

By Jackie Golblum / Wednesday, June 24, 2026 / Comments Off on 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 […]

Majdanek Extermination Camp: Can you feel the smoky ashes? By Peter Bower

By Jackie Golblum / Wednesday, June 24, 2026 / Comments Off on 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, […]

Wednesday, June 24: By Margaret Reed

By Jackie Golblum / Wednesday, June 24, 2026 / Comments Off on 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 […]

​Written in Pencil, Preserved in Stone – By Travis Lear

By Jackie Golblum / Wednesday, June 24, 2026 / Comments Off on ​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 […]

Reflections on Treblinka: Serenity, Erasure, and Remembrance – By Travis Lear

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, June 23, 2026 / Comments Off on Reflections on Treblinka: Serenity, Erasure, and Remembrance – By Travis Lear

​Driving through the Polish forest under a brilliant blue sky, my mind drifts back to the very beginning of this journey at the POLIN Museum, specifically to the old Jewish […]

Treblinka – By Melissa Hamburg

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, June 23, 2026 / Comments Off on Treblinka – By Melissa Hamburg

Does the grass know? Do the dandelions whisper the memory of the restless souls of the departed? The beauty of nature holds the space for their stories. When the birds […]

NN Theatre – By Wendy Arons

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, June 23, 2026 / Comments Off on NN Theatre – By Wendy Arons

NN Theatre – the name stands for “No Name” Theatre. On the bus I shared that I’ve been thinking a lot about the role the performing arts, especially theater, can […]

Treblinka – By Hayden

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, June 23, 2026 / Comments Off on Treblinka – By Hayden

The Death Camp at Treblinka, or what remains of it, is one of the most impacting sites in the Polish nation. In the effort to conceal the camp, The Germans […]

NN Theatre – By Wendy Arons

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, June 23, 2026 / Comments Off on NN Theatre – By Wendy Arons

NN Theatre – the name stands for “No Name” Theatre. On the bus I shared that I’ve been thinking a lot about the role the performing arts, especially theater, can […]

Tuesday, June 23 – By Kaitlyn Hughes

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, June 23, 2026 / Comments Off on Tuesday, June 23 – By Kaitlyn Hughes

It was an hour and a half trip for the 87 of us to travel from Warsaw to Treblinka. We sat down in comfortable seats, cool air conditioning blew onto […]

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