Genocide
This was our second concentration camp visit. It was an emotional day all around. I participated as a reader in the memorial service so I was trying to control my […]
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Today, as we observed the monument being placed into the ground, I couldn’t help but be consumed by these thoughts. Throughout our entire journey, a lingering feeling of forgotten stories […]
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the smack of hands meeting before a quick embrace fills the little square of the Old Town of Lublin. two men grin at each other. “dzień dobry!” “dzień dobry!” their […]
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On our first evening in Warsaw, the guest speakers told us not to leave Poland sad. The weight of this journey holds pain and sadness, but the message was clear. […]
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This afternoon we visited Treblinka Memorial Site, a two hour bus ride outside of Warsaw. My friend and colleague Kate Vitek and I traveled with 20 stones from our community […]
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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 […]
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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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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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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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