Remembrance
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, […]
Today, on a rainy summer day, our group had the honor of visiting Dachau concentration camp. Our tour guide, Gerd, described the long-running camp to us in terms of the […]
Today was our first day in Munich, and it was very interesting. My first impression was surprise at the size of the city and its topography. The image of Bavaria […]
There’s dirt on my shoes. After a full week of walking through Poland, this should not be that surprising. These shoes are a lilac purple with a few accents of […]
In a journal entry from Abraham Lewin, he writes “Future generations will not believe.” In a time where anti-semitism is on the rise, I wasn’t shocked to see this. In an […]
Visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau was one of the most profound and emotionally challenging experiences of my career as a history teacher. Standing in the place where over a million innocent people were […]
At first, when you enter Auschwitz, it does not feel real. The images are too familiar: the gate, the railway tracks, the brick buildings, the barbed wire. They have been […]
Majdanek is not a word heard very often when discussing the Holocaust and camps. I did not learn about Majdanek until my teacher went on the trip and brought his […]
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 […]