Human Rights Violations
Visiting the Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse — the Memorium Nuremberg Trials — is not like visiting a museum. It’s stepping into the birthplace of a new moral vocabulary: crimes against humanity, […]
For me, the Classrooms Without Borders Poland, Personally seminar was a once in a lifetime opportunity for educators, a comprehensive lesson in what Poland was to the Jewish people for […]
Monuments can be affecting due to their size, physical shape, coloration, symbolism, etc. Today when we visited the Warsaw Deportations Monument I was mostly affected by the adjacent physical space. The monument […]
I have read a number of books and seen different movies with scenes that take place at Ghetto wall in Warsaw, however, none of this prepared me for what I […]
Today I went on a Warsaw Urban Walking Tour with Avi, one of our brilliant scholars in residence, who is teaching us on this journey. It’s hard to put into […]
In Vilnius, our guide called parks “scars of war.” The playgrounds we saw, where children descended colorful slides and adults gathered onnearby benches, were erected after the war. In some […]
When you walk in Ponary there are sounds: the crackling of leaves beneath your feet, the strikeof a lighter as a flame ignites, the placing of a memorial candle near […]
The day began with a charge, our tour guide Ernest said. This venture, and its two parts, should“provide the historical context of Vilna.” Representing our morning and afternoon excursions, the […]
Every day I think about what I learned during my time in Germany last month. Sometimes it’s hard to wrap my head around it …or there will be details that […]