Antisemitism
On the first full day of our trip we visited the Polin museum. As our guide said, “we traveled through 1000 years of history in an hour and a half.” […]
Read MoreWe arrived in Poland on Sunday, June 18, and opened with a lovely dinner in our hotel. We were greeted by Tsipy, then heard from the local Chabad Rabbi and […]
Read MoreThey arrived to this land at the calling of birds. Polin, polin, rest here. Here, enclosed beneath the trees, row after row the headstones stand silent, angled this way and that […]
Read MoreStalin famously said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of ten million is a statistic.” I knew going in that it would be nearly impossible to […]
Read MoreToday’s tour had a consistent theme: “thou shalt not be indifferent.” These words, delivered by survivor Marian Turski in a speech commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, […]
Read MoreI thought I was prepared. This encompasses so much I thought I was prepared to travel. It’s been years since I’ve been on a plane but I haven’t been on […]
Read MoreToday was my first full day in Poland. To say the least . . . it was powerful. Before I get into what we did, I just want to say […]
Read MoreThe Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a new Talking Memory series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust: Filling in the Gaps June 25th : The Iasi Pogrom in Romania Opening […]
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