Genocide
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 – 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Going to a place like Treblinka I truly did not know what to expect. I know what happened there, I know when, but that doesn’t make you ready for it. […]