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The Power of Literature By Maddie O’Donnell

By Jackie Golblum / Tuesday, June 20, 2023 / Comments Off on The Power of Literature By Maddie O’Donnell

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.” […]

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Poland Personally Blog By Sarah Grand

By Jackie Golblum / Monday, June 19, 2023 / Comments Off on Poland Personally Blog By Sarah Grand

We 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 […]

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Poem from Okopowa St. Jewish Cemetery By Jacki Weaver

By Jackie Golblum / Monday, June 19, 2023 / Comments Off on Poem from Okopowa St. Jewish Cemetery By Jacki Weaver

They 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 […]

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History By Numbers By Laura Huffman

By Jackie Golblum / Monday, June 19, 2023 / Comments Off on History By Numbers By Laura Huffman

Stalin 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 […]

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Poland Personally – First Day Blog By Anna Yonas

By Jackie Golblum / Monday, June 19, 2023 / Comments Off on Poland Personally – First Day Blog By Anna Yonas

Today’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, […]

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Poland Personally Blog 1 By Chessa Crum

By Jackie Golblum / Sunday, June 18, 2023 / Comments Off on Poland Personally Blog 1 By Chessa Crum

I 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 […]

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The Beginning of Our Journey By Josh Ault

By Jackie Golblum / Sunday, June 18, 2023 / Comments Off on The Beginning of Our Journey By Josh Ault

Today 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 […]

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Day 2 MDFR Blog by Sarah Smith

By Ellen Resnek / Monday, June 12, 2023 / Comments Off on Day 2 MDFR Blog by Sarah Smith

Day 2 begins bright & early with some breakfast at the hotel. Then we hop on the bus and head towards Atlanta. Our destination here was the National Center for […]

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The Ghetto Fighters’ House: Talking Memory series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust: Filling in the Gaps

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, June 8, 2023 / Comments Off on The Ghetto Fighters’ House: Talking Memory series Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust: Filling in the Gaps

The 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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HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND DISTORTION

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 / Comments Off on HOLOCAUST DENIAL AND DISTORTION

How do we address Holocaust denial? In this webinar, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, known as “The Last of the Nazi Hunters,” discusses how to debunk Holocaust denial and speaks on Holocaust […]

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