The Holocaust
At Auschwitz I, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the scale of what happened. The numbers are almost too large for students, or for any of us, to fully […]
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 […]
As we get off the bus and use the restrooms, I look around to make sure I have the kids that I’ve considered mine all week. They aren’t mine of […]
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 […]
The house stands at 88 Legionów Street in Oświęcim, just on the other side of the camp’s walls. It is the former home of Rudolf Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz […]
As we visited the Ghetto of Heroes Square today in the heart of Krakow, I was reminded of the valuable assets of public art. We often think of art as […]
Our tours of three of the seven synagogues in Krakow, our lecture with Jonathan Ornstein, and our walk around the Krakow Ghetto serves as a reminder to do something rather […]
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 […]
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 […]