The Holocaust

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 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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“Boardman teachers to travel to Poland for ‘Classrooms Without Borders’ journey”

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, June 16, 2023 / Comments Off on “Boardman teachers to travel to Poland for ‘Classrooms Without Borders’ journey”

Get insights into how Boardman teachers are embarking on a transformative journey to Poland as part of Classrooms Without Borders.

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Beyond the Wall of Names: Evidence of a Life Lived by Deborah Schwarz

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, June 14, 2023 / Comments Off on Beyond the Wall of Names: Evidence of a Life Lived by Deborah Schwarz

Beyond the Wall of Names:  Evidence of a Life Lived  I grew up surrounded by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. I thought that was normal. Once I graduated high school, I […]

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June 13th Marching Down Freedom’s Road by Gloria Losey “A voteless people is a hopeless people”

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, June 13, 2023 / Comments Off on June 13th Marching Down Freedom’s Road by Gloria Losey “A voteless people is a hopeless people”

Today, June 13, 2023, Classrooms Without Borders and our intimate group of 23 traveled from Montgomery, the seat of power in Alabama, to Selma, Alabama, the center of another important […]

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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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WHY DIDN’T THE ALLIES BOMB AUSCHWITZ?

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 / Comments Off on WHY DIDN’T THE ALLIES BOMB AUSCHWITZ?

Could 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 […]

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