The Holocaust
This week has shown why studying history or at least knowing history is important. History should never be about dates or names of Kings/Queens/Leaders. History is a narrative of everyone’s […]
95-year-old Holocaust survivor, Howard Chandler, returns to Starachowice with family and a group from the U.S. and Canada, including daughters Bonnie and Heda Chandler and Classrooms Without Borders Director Zipora “Tsipy” Gur.
As I was preparing to leave for Germany, there were a few places I knew I wanted to visit and experience, one of them was The Jewish Museum Berlin. With it’s […]
Thursday, July 20th- Remembrance & Beyond Today we toured the Memorial and Museum at the former concentration Camp Sachsenhausen. Going into the day I felt uneasy, and unsure of what […]
“My family has a history of bystanders and perpetrators.” It was our first day of programming for Germany Close Up (GCU). Our guides, young historians who would lead us through […]
Below should be my words from todays journey, specifically our visit to Track 17: “Today was the start of a heavier part of our journey in Germany. One of the […]
This trip to Germany didn’t feel real to me until I arrived at the airport on Sunday evening. It didn’t feel real until I saw my friends, Sara and Emily, […]
Garrette and I are safely home from our Vienna Prague Seminar and want to express our gratitude to Classrooms Without Borders and the amazing group of educators with whom we […]
Every educator, no matter their subject, comes into their profession with the crude outline of a puzzle. There are pieces missing along the border and some sporadic pieces in the […]
Learn how Beachwood students are set to benefit from educators’ experiences during their journey to Poland.