Jewish History
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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To be frank, Warsaw is a city that, for most of my life, didn’t cross my mind often. It was one of those cities that could be added to a […]
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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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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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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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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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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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