By: Brittany Pack The “fun fact” I shared with my fellow travellers upon group introductions was that I am getting married in about a month – one month and a day from the day we get back, actually – and it’s definitely…
By: Keiron O’Connell In Warsaw. Up at 6:15 am (Paula was up earlier), had breakfast at the hotel. We boarded the bus at 8:00 am and drove to the Umschlagplatz, the final staging area before deportees from the ghetto were loaded on…
By: Ellen Resnek How do we preserve the memories of the souls who perished at the site of Treblinka? The memorial we traveled to today cannot in its entirety speak to the lives erased by the horrors of the Holocaust. For me,…
By: Janet Eppoliti Today we toured the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw. It was beautiful. Most cemeteries are on vast, manicured lawns, peppered with headstones, flowers, and wreaths. But the Cemetery here in Warsaw was in a wooded area. Trees seemed to compete…
By: Joshua Andy Returning to Poland with Classrooms Without Borders is an opportunity to continue to add to my repertoire of individual stories of those who were victims of the Holocaust, those who were bystanders, those who collaborated with the Nazi occupation,…
By: Cheryl Martin We arrived early yesterday afternoon in Warsaw and immediately met up with the early arrivals from CWB at the Poland Museum of Jewish History. Met a small group including Tsipy Gur, the founder of CWB, and went on a two…
Written By: Alexandra Friedlander In the morning, we drove to a Bedouin home. Bedouins are a subgroup within the Arab minority in Israel and have a cultural, historical, social and political uniqueness. In the Bedouin home, we ate a delicious breakfast of…
Written By: Katherine Kunkle We ate a quick breakfast, and jumped into the van to head to an area that looked over the valley, where we were told the story of Jesus’s birth. We then took the bus to a small Orthodox Church…
Written By: Lauren Levy and Anna Elias This morning after breakfast at the Children’s Village, we left for Holon, which is a city right outside of Tel Aviv. We arrived at the Museum of the Blind a little before 10:30, where we…
Written by: all participants We ate a quick breakfast, and hopped into the van. First, we drove to a Druze school, called Beirut Jann. At the school, we spoke with the students and learned a bit about the Druze culture. Then, we got…
Written by: Alexandra Friedlander We ate a quick breakfast of yogurt and tea and rushed out to the buses. We drove to the center of Karmiel to see some Bedouin communities. It was very interesting to see how they lived. Then, we…
Written by: Alexandra Friedlander We woke up and ate a delicious egg breakfast. Afterwards, we drove to Rosh Hanikra, which is a beautiful geologic cliff formation on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in Western Galilee. Rosh Hanikra borders Lebanon, and many…