Ateret Cope
I had planned to blog every day, but I hadn’t accounted for the emotions that would hit me when we went to Treblinka and Majdanek. I have been teaching about […]
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Hello, I composed this blog while on our early bus ride from Warsaw to Lublin. It is now 12:08am and currently I am one day behind on the progress of […]
Read MoreThis morning the educators and students walked through parts of Warsaw, a city that was 85% destroyed during the war. The wealth of archived historical information allowed us to learn […]
Read MoreWe arrived in Warsaw, tired and hungry, but eager to begin our journey. The educators and students went to their separate buses and headed to the Jewish cemetery and then […]
Read MoreIt’s 2:30 am here in Warsaw and despite the fact that I’m truly learning exactly what the meaning of “jet lag” is, I find myself wide awake. We’ve been in […]
Read MoreThankfully, after delays…I can report that the planes have landed, the first day of touring has concluded, and we have had our welcome dinner. It is 10:50 in Poland and […]
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When you visit Temple Mount, you are visiting a place so holy that, in ancient times, only the highest Jewish priest was allowed to visit once a year. And you […]
Read MoreIt is widely known that trains and train stations had a traumatic effect on the Jewish people. Even the movie Paperclips honors Shoah deaths by collecting 6 million Paperclips in a […]
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