In the morning we visited the new Holocaust Memorial on the site of the Jewish Cemetery. The Cemetery was desecrated by the Nazis in 1941. The University expanded on the site. Not until 2014 was a memorial dedicated to their memory. The…
Greetings from Greece, The CWB group from Pittsburgh arrived in Athens on Monday June 15th at around 9:00 am Athens time. We have had a whirlwind of activities and we are taking in a lot of the culture and history of the places…
Castle of Ioannina Just beyond the huge walls of the castle we entered to visit a synagogue. Allegra told us her Holocaust story. She and her family managed to escape the Nazis by hiding in the mountains that surround the city. It…
Today we left Athens at 815 am to travel to Mycenae the fabled home of King Agamemnon. Along the way we discussed the connection between topography and religion. We discussed how the polis and its isolation created a polythesitic culture. The relative…
After a long bus ride it felt amazing to stop at a small town by the sea. I felt so at peace standing by the sea that I wasn’t sure I ever wanted to leave. The feeling reminded me of the song Peace by…
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 The Olympic Games are something we are all familiar with, we watch these seasonal games every two years as they move from city to city around the globe–and today we visited where it all began. From the 8th…
We set off a group of bedraggled Pittsburghers who didn’t quite know what to expect upon arriving in the bustling metropolis of Athens. The street graffiti no longer bore the slogans of local soccer teams or political parties but the yearnings of…
Wow — we are moving so fast, but it’s great, so many placces go to, and so much to see. I just looked at pictures of these sites before, this is great actually being here.
Kalispera, good evening from Nauplia! My name is Caroline and I am lucky to be one of seven students from the Pittsburgh area embarking on this study seminar with CWB. To start off this trip I did not know what to expect,…
You might recall that Anna Wolyniec joined the CWB study seminar in Poland and told how her great-grandmother, Maria Zurawska, saved three Jews, including a 5 year-old girl. That little girl became the mother of Amy Lakritz. Today Dr. Amy Lakritz is…
Shalom parents! Our last day in Israel was amazing, to say the least. In the morning, we left the children’s village with tears in our eyes. We arrived in Zihron where we visited the Roschild botanical gardens. Our tour guide Barak helped…