Genocide
I have held an extreme interest in WWII and the Holocaust for many years, educating myself throughreading, researching, and watching documentaries; but nothing I have ever done could even come […]
Read MoreOn 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 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 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 MoreCould the Allies have done more during the Holocaust to stop the murders in the extermination camps or to slow down the progression of events thereby saving lives? The question […]
Read MoreHonoring the National Day of Remembrance for the Cambodian Genocide Cambodia’s story is often dominated by the 3 years and 8 months when the Khmer Rouge controlled the country. The […]
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