A History of Anti-Ukrainian Sentiment in Poland
By Timothy Li
Although I have not personally attended the…
31 January 2018/by Ula KlobuszewskaThe Macedonian Crisis: A Tale of a Confused Nation
By Timothy Li
When people hear about the name Macedonia, usually…
31 January 2018/by Ula KlobuszewskaIrredentism in Orban’s Hungary
By Timothy Li
One of the most memorable moments that I had…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Lviv
By Ivan Laryionenka
Lviv is one of those places that rarely…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Rhetoric of Patriotism & Nationalism
By Diego Franco
“The difference between patriotism and nationalism…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Viewing the Past from the Present
By Leah Killian
Berlin is filled with many monuments and statues.…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Train World
By Kaitlin Kurdziel
When I was little, trains had always been…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Losing Memories
By Kaitlin Kurdziel
My visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau brought…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Things to Think About While Interacting with Memorials
By Deborah Sue-Ho
Earlier in the semester, it made me livid…
30 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Destruction and Reconstruction of Warsaw
By Gabrielle Marzolf
Within the Jewish community, it is a…
30 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Mark of Partitions on Polish Identity
By Gabrielle Marzolf
It is impossible to discuss the issue…
30 January 2018/by Ula KlobuszewskaComplex Memory in Berlin
By Bryan Alicea
In the 1932 German federal elections, Adolf…
30 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Rebuilding Berlin’s Identity
By Caroline Bartholomew
Berlin was founded in the thirteenth…
30 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
A Memorial to the Soviets, Not to Their Victims
By Cate Ferson
As Stalin and the Red Army made their victorious…
30 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Skirting the Line
By Cynthia Wang
We took it upon ourselves to go to Lviv as…
30 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska
Football Hooligans And Their Role In Polish Politics
Written by Ivan Laryionenka
Loud, radical, passionate and…
21 November 2017/by Danielle McDowellDid Poland and Hungary Lose Their EU Pride?
Written by Ivan Laryionenka
A strong, prosperous and proud…
21 November 2017/by Danielle McDowellResilience
Written By Deborah Sue-Ho
As I walked past barracks where…
21 November 2017/by Danielle McDowell
Wawel Castle: An Enduring Symbol of Polish Identity
Written By Caroline Bartholomew
Throughout its long and tumultuous…
21 November 2017/by Danielle McDowell
Baby Killers
Written by Cynthia Wang
What could I possibly hope to tell…
21 November 2017/by Danielle McDowell
Ignoring the Memory of Auschwitz
By Cate Ferson
While looking through the calendar for this…
8 November 2017/by Danielle McDowell
The Communist Terror in Hungary
By Bryan Alicea
During the Second World War, Hungary was allied…
8 November 2017/by Danielle McDowell
A Monumental Dilemma – What To Do with Confederate Identity in America
By Diego Franco
“Monuments are the grappling irons that…
8 November 2017/by Danielle McDowellAuschwitz: Graveyard or Media Platform
By Leah Killian
When visiting places like Auschwitz-Birkenau…
8 November 2017/by Danielle McDowellThe Soviet Cover-up of Jewish Identity
By Leah Killian
Jewish Identity in Central and Eastern Europe…
8 November 2017/by Danielle McDowell
Handling Memory through Public Memorials
By Deborah Sue-Ho
As Central European countries attempt to…
7 November 2017/by Danielle McDowell
The Lety Camp

Identity Without Representation: The Romani in Central Europe
By Gabrielle Marzolf
Most of the conflicts that caused and…
16 October 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Remembering the Holocaust in Budapest
By Bryan Alicea
Between 1941 and 1945, one of the most horrific…
16 October 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Budapest’s Memento Park: An example for America?
By Caroline Bartholomew
There is more to a monument than it’s…
16 October 2017/by Ula KlobuszewskaHow to Close Your Borders
By Cate Ferson
In the wake of the 2016 election, tensions…
12 October 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Central Europe through a Cake Lens
By Cynthia Wang
Fourteen days is a long time to be constantly…
12 October 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Decoding a Yard Full of Graves
3 July 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
My Work in the Service Learning Project and Why it’s Such a Meaningful Opportunity
By Eric Weisansal
Many of the historical sites we have visited…
26 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
A Road to Reconstruction
By Rachel Watson
The New Jewish Cemetery on Lotnicza Street…
26 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Memories Forgotten
By Samantha Schantz
Robert Kennedy once said, “There are…
26 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Experiencing the Berlin Wall Up Close
By Jeremy Covone
The Berlin Wall was only a vague image and…
26 June 2017/by Ula KlobuszewskaPreserving a Forgotten Past
By Stella Van Ness
The city of Wroclaw, Poland has a lengthy…
26 June 2017/by Ula KlobuszewskaThe Rise Of Dark Tourism
By Jonalynn Lao
There is no doubt that the tourism industry…
26 June 2017/by Ula KlobuszewskaEyes That Are Always Watching
By Maddie Petherick
During the era of the German Democratic…
26 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Gleis 17: The Site of Deportation
By Emily Nestler
The purpose of observing and studying the…
23 June 2017/by Ula KlobuszewskaThe Impact of Auschwitz
By Emily Nestler
The devastating story and journey of the…
23 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Remnants of a Complicated History
By Abigail Thaine
The city of Wroclaw has a long and complex…
23 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Experiencing the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
By Dustin Ducey
In the prior days before visiting the Auschwitz…
23 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Restoring the History of the New Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw
23 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Invisible Cemeteries
By Emilie Bouchard
Cemeteries have always been interesting…
22 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Significance of Cemeteries: A Service Learning Experience
By Spencer Cottman
When dealing with the passing…
22 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Soviet War Memorial
By Stella Van Ness
The Soviet War Memorial in Berlin, Germany…
19 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Monumental Progress: Memorials as a Part of Collective Memory
By Spencer Cottman
Collective memory is an important part…
19 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Places of Awareness
19 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Broken beyond repair
By Rachel Watson
An experience that was particularly breathtaking…
19 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Trying to Walk in Their Shoes
By Maddie Petherick
Gleis 17 is the platform in West Berlin…
18 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
A Wall Without Borders
By Jonalynn C. Lao
The gorgeous city of Berlin; is home to…
18 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
One Path Leads to Another and Another
By Erin Harrison
As I stood on the platforms of Grunewald…
18 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Rise of Totalitarianism: East Berlin Through the Lens of George Orwell’s 1984
By Eric Weisansal
I never quite understood why most of all…
18 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Invisible Memorial
By Emilie Bouchard
As a child, whenever I visited a memorial…
18 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Feeling of the Holocaust
By Abigail Thaine
Time after time it has been said that seeing…
18 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska
Unintentional Erasure: Changing Monuments to Match New Historical Interpretation
By Brigitta Pupillo
I have mentioned before in my previous…
13 December 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
I Am Still Here
By Ali Dunbar
This morning I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to see who…
12 December 2016/by Ula KlobuszewskaA Major Identity Crisis
By Rosa Beyk
Nelson Mandela once said, “No one is born hating…
12 December 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Identity Challenges of Women in Resistance
By Lindsay Zerfas
Resistance to the Nazi regime took many…
12 December 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Dwelling in Countermemorials
6 December 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Justifying Memorials
21 November 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Two Visible Minorities in Prague: A Social Discourse of “Othering”
By Ali Dunbar
Prague is one of the most popular tourist destinations…
15 November 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Dwelling in Places of Violent Memory
15 November 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Imperfect quest for a “Perfect” Memorial
By Lindsay Zerfas
“We would like to know how you would generate…
10 November 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
German Memorials: Respect, Education and Reconciliation
By Brigitta Pupillo
From the start of our trip in Central…
9 November 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Reconciling National Narratives and Commemoration: Voices Still Waiting to Be Heard
27 October 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Remembrance through Knowledge
26 October 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Poland’s 1968 Anti-Semitic Campaign: Why Historical Dialogue is Important
By Brigitta Pupillo
When I first arrived in Central Europe…
24 October 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Spaces of Lost Memory
By Charlotte Oestrich
Every country has a past, as does each…
22 October 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Exploring the Concept of Stories in Central Europe
By Lindsay Zerfas
Stories are an integral part of many children’s…
22 October 2016/by Ula Klobuszewska
Auschwitz: The Challenge of Remembering
By Arielle Pressman
Today, the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau…
18 December 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Warsaw Ghetto Maccabee
By Arielle Pressman
Hanukkah 2015 has made it here, and like…
11 December 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
History Repeats Itself
By Domenica Vera
Berlin, the capital of Germany, is home to…
2 December 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Putting a Face to a Name
By Domenica Vera
I have been asked many times why I have decided…
2 December 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Forget-me-not
By Katherine Vargas
Walking through the red and orange…
29 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Heaven is a Place on Earth
By Katherine Vargas
We disembarked our bus at a commercial…
29 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
“Hier Wohnte”
By Renata Husted
They used to live here. In this four-leveled…
25 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Aktion T4
By Monica Pellerano
I remember writing: writing lines, writing…
25 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
70 Years, 9 Months, and 20 Days
By Renata Husted
It has been 70 years, 9 months, and 20 days…
25 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Are We Actually Seeing?
Erin Kenney
Being in Berlin, a significantly historical city…
14 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Self-Hating Jewess Writes Pro-Palestine Article for Urban Labs Central Europe
By Farrell Brenner
Three months ago, I stood ankle-deep…
12 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Berlin Wall: A Symbol of Oppression
By Marcin Zak
The Berlin Wall is a testament…
12 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Creation of a National Identity through Militarization
By Monica Pellerano
Military Museums have so often been…
12 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
My Big Fat Gyspy Wedding or My Big Fat False Portrayal?
By Erin Kenney
Several months ago, if someone asked me…
12 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Auschwitz-Birkenau: Grappling with the Unspeakable
By Marcin Zak
To visit the old Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration…
12 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
I won’t write about Auschwitz.
By Farrell Greenwald Brenner
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang…
12 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
How do we measure depravity: In meters? In feet?
By Monica Pellerano
You know how some of the most beautiful…
12 November 2015/by Ula KlobuszewskaKriesi test
11 November 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Creating Identity Through Dialogue
By Domenica V. Vera
If there were any place I would choose…
27 October 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Vanishing Footsteps of a People’s History
By Katherine Vargas
Coming into this program, I knew little…
20 October 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
From Water Parks to Wake Up Calls
By Renata Husted
Type in the phrase “Vilnius Nightlife”…
20 October 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
One History, Two Narratives
By Erin Martha Kenney
During our travels in Lithuania and…
15 October 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
A New Light Shines for the Memory of Jewish Poland
By Arielle Pressman
When I first told my mother I wanted…
14 October 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
We don’t discuss the echoes
By Farrell Brenner
As a patrilineal Jew and a student…
13 October 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Warsaw is Rising
By Marcin Zak
In a perfect world, it would be difficult to…
13 October 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The East Side Gallery: Forum and Monument
By Michael Kosowski
To recall the first time that I, to use…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Memorials, Remembrances, and their Interpretations
By Megan Gorenflo
Berlin is a large and well-known city in…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: Adequate Enough?
By Meagan Edwards
In the heart of Berlin there lies a monument.…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Field of Stelae
By Kylie Britt
A memorial is a structure that creates a place…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Do No Harm
By Kaylee De Zalia
More than seventy years after the Holocaust,…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Inappropriate Memorials: Berlin’s Failure
By Katie Thomas
Memorials are used as tools with which the…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Hidden Truth inside East Berlin
By Jackie Myers
At the end of World War II, Germany was split…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Memorials and Memory
By Elon Clarke
Day after day on this trip, the other students…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Poland’s Elections: A Grim Future?
By Michael Kosowski
My face was pressed against the glass…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Memories, Reflections and the Holocaust
By Megan Gorenflo
When I was thirteen, I traveled with a school…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Auschwitz: An Experience and Lesson No One Should Ever Forget
By Meagan Edwards
Shortly after the end of the Second World…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
A Visit to Auschwitz
By Kylie Britt
As a student learning about the Holocaust,…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Shadows of a Hidden Past
By Kaylee De Zalia
At first glance, the Galicia Jewish Museum…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Appalling Auschwitz: Confronting the Past
By Katie Thomas
Recently, we have been discussing the differences…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Centennial Hall, Hope from the Past, a quiet message for the Future
By Elon Clarke
Begun as a space for the general public of…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
Inside the Barbed Wire Fences: Auschwitz and Birkenau
By Jacquelyn Myers
From around the world people have come…
10 June 2015/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Holocaust, in general
By: Kara McGrane
The Holocaust was a specific, disquieting…
8 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Lack of Discourse between Monuments and People
By: Kara McGrane
In most cases, a memorial is erected to commemorate…
8 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Marble made Monument
By: Megan Newell
The comfortable little gem of a city known…
4 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Stalin and Hitler as Statisticians
By: Megan Newell
While walking the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau,…
4 December 2014/by Ula KlobuszewskaLeaving Space for Memory
By: Jake “Andy” Fabrizio
Historical injustices do not…
3 December 2014/by Ula KlobuszewskaA Museum of Memory
By: Jake “Andy” Fabrizio
In the days leading up to our…
3 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska“Colossal Cement”
By: Madeline Diorio
Three months after walking around foreign…
3 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
BLOCK 27: IDEOLOGY KILLS
By: Madeline Diorio
Following the Second World War Auschwitz-Birkenau…
3 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Relations Between Peoples of a Troubled East Central Europe
By: Kevin Kuzniczci
From the mountains and foothills of the…
3 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Reconstruction of Relations
By: Page Garbee
Generally when something breaks or falls…
3 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Holocaust Memorial: An Individually Unique Experience
By: Samantha Avalos
During my process of reflection on my…
2 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Contemplation of Themes Concerning Identities
By: Kevin Kuzniczci
Throughout the semester abroad in Central…
27 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
“Commemorating the dead is part of human culture. Commemorating the fallen is … part of political culture.” War and Suffering Exhibit at the Military Museum in Dresden, Germany
By: Tory Russo
This semester we’ve visited countless sites…
26 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Reflections on the Remains of the Wall
By Kelsey Klimara and Samantha Avalos
While reflecting and…
26 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Weight of Memory
By: Katelyn Olsen
In a situation as tragic and unmatched as…
24 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
“Memories are built as a city is built.” – Umberto Eco
By: Tory Russo
...Or rebuilt. In Berlin - a city physically…
19 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
“Auschwitz Selfie Girl Defends Actions.”,
“Justin Bieber Hopes Anne Frank ‘would have been a Belieber.”…
8 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Reconciliation and Reconstruction in the 21st Century
By: Katelyn Olsen
When working with the memory and reconciliation…
4 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Unexpected Connections to the Past
By: Kelsey Klimara
I could probably reflect on my trip to…
4 November 2014/by Ula KlobuszewskaPaneriai Forest: Laid to Rest
By: Madeline Diorio
It is like an old story heard throughout…
4 November 2014/by Ula KlobuszewskaPreserving the Lost Identity through Memory: The Jewish Victims in the Borderlands
By: Kara McGrane
When visiting city after city, museum after…
15 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Beyond the Tears, Trees and Turmoil; the Road to Reconciliation
By Megan Newell
Our two and a half week travel seminar through…
9 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Axis of Fear In Historical Tragedy
By: Jacob Steckel
It is a strange phenomenon that, when facing…
8 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Absence of Community, Absence of Memory
By: Page Garbee
Dilapidation consumes the town of Krynki.…
8 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Experiences Within the Former Grand Duchy of Poland-Lithuania
By: Kevin Kuzniczci
From the time I had appeared at the…
8 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Moving Away from Indifference: The Hidden Past of Vilnius, Lithuania
By Kelsey Klimara
After traveling for 20 days and to seven…
8 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska“It’s impossible to imagine…”
By: Tory Russo
For me, the easiest way to understand is through…
8 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Ponary Forest Massacre
By: Jake “Andy” Fabrizio
Imagine the shock and outrage…
8 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Borderlands Foundation and the Town of Sejny
By: Samantha Avalos
Our two-week intensive travelling seminar…
7 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Remnants of the Past
By: Katelyn Olsen
Perhaps one of the saddest sights to see…
6 October 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Berlin Wall
On our excursion to Berlin, Germany, the Berlin Wall memorial…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall served as a barrier between East and West…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Roma and Sinti Memorial
Tucked away, hidden, unimposing, quaint; these are words that…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Polish Soldiers’ Monument
Within the first week of being in Wroclaw, we climbed a hill…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Often times, when the word “Holocaust” is mentioned we only…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Kazimierz
Kazimierz, a district of Poland’s southern city of Krakow,…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The New Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw
Wroclaw’s New Jewish Cemetery was founded in 1902 when…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Institute of National Remembrance
The years of 1944-1945 are often falsely believed to be the beginning…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime
Background on Our Visit to the Memorial
by Arielle Ingrassia
A…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
The Church of Peace
Not far from Wrocław, in the small town of Świdnica, stands…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Centennial Hall
The music rebounded through the historic setting; it was almost…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
Auschwitz
For many people around the world with the most basic understanding…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska