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After a long and difficult day yesterday, today started off at a leisurely pace. While some teachers chose to participate in tai chi, others decided to ease into the morning […]
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Today we woke up early and took the bus to Auschwitz. Auschwitz had 40 sub camps. First we saw Auschwitz 1. It was originally a Polish military base, but the […]
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When we entered Auschwitz 1 early on Friday morning, many of us were taken aback at the crowds and frenetic busyness of the place. We remembered the somber sacred quietude […]
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After breakfast, we all gathered in the hotel’s conference room. There we met with the deputy mayor, the former deputy mayor, and a historian who works for the town. We […]
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Yesterday, while in Lublin, I was taken by the rows and rows of nameless visages depicted in black and white photos. To leave this Earth without anyone to remember you […]
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Day 4 of the “Poland Personally” seminar is complete. Today we stopped in Wierzbnik-Starachowice, Howard Chandler’s home town. As we entered the town, the first thing we saw was the […]
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Today we woke up early in order to be on the bus by 8:00 for our ride to Lublin. On the way there, we started learning some songs for memorial […]
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Today we left Warsaw and made our way to Lublin to visit the Grodzka Gate. The town of Lublin once had a thriving Jewish neighborhood that was completely destroyed during […]
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The Flowers of Majdanek How many feet had shuffled down this lane? I couldn’t begin to imagine. The suffering. the pain, the overwhelming fear…these life draining forces still evident no […]
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After a good night’s rest and a filling breakfast, we headed out on the bus. We started today by seeing some of the remaining parts of the ghetto wall and […]
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