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The Significance of the Sejny Synagogue
By Ella Farrell
The decision to spend a semester in Poland…
6 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik![Bikes propped up against the entrace to former Płazów concentration camp. Photo by Max Goldberg.](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bikes-propped-up-against-the-entrace-to-former-Płazów-concentration-camp.-Photo-by-Max-Goldberg.--529x705.jpg)
Guarding Memory through Ecology
By Sophie Creager-Roberts
Since the end of World War II, Poland…
6 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik![Street Art in Kazimierz](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Street-Art-in-Kazimierz-529x705.jpeg)
“Jewish-themed Restaurants,” the Jewish Mafia, and Other Reasons Why I’m Upset
By Max Ditchek Goldberg
Preface: I first began writing this…
6 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik![IMG_9605](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_9605-e1576362172347-529x705.jpg)
Roma Persecution Across Time
By Aaron Alonso
The Roma people have long faced persecution…
14 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![Map of the town of Oswiecim, with its borders in orange. The marker #1 shows where Auschwitz-Birkenau is located just outside of the town, and #2 is Auschwitz-I, which sits within the town borders](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Map-of-the-town-of-Oswiecim-with-its-borders-in-orange.-The-marker-1-shows-where-Auschwitz-Birkenau-is-located-just-outside-of-the-town-and-2-is-Auschwitz-I-which-sits-within-the-town-borders-705x616.jpg)
The Jewish Auschwitz Center: Putting Oshpitsin Back on the Map
By Jacqueline Murrer
The town of Oshpitsin sits in the…
14 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![African Street Name in Berlin (Denis Barthel)](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/African-Street-Name-in-Berlin-Denis-Barthel-705x470.jpg)
Germany Needs to Make Amends with Its Past Beyond Nazism: The Fight to Shed Light on Colonial History
By April Dvorak
Throughout my studies in Central Europe, the…
14 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![file3](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/file3-529x705.jpeg)
Multifaceted Remembrance of Communism–The Good and the Bad
By Luke Burke
Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe…
14 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![Inclusive elements of the T-4 Monument](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Inclusive-elements-of-the-T-4-Monument-1-e1576243796795-705x445.jpg)
Memorializing the Marginalized Groups Within the Holocaust
By Hannah Gavin
As we are coming to the end of our travels abroad,…
13 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![privatevarmobileContainersDataApplication253ABC21-51EC-40E1-8AC1-A3034251E8A6tmpE0EB7A5E-7B72-4388-ADF4-453D7441A8EFImage](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/privatevarmobileContainersDataApplication253ABC21-51EC-40E1-8AC1-A3034251E8A6tmpE0EB7A5E-7B72-4388-ADF4-453D7441A8EFImage-529x705.jpeg)
Don’t Judge Poland Before You’ve Walked Centuries in its Shoes, and Don’t Judge an Uprising by its Museum
By Esmé Rummelhart
An anthropologist-in-training, I am eager…
13 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![Processed with VSCO with v6 preset](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/The-mermaid-represented-on-Warsaws-coat-of-arms.-A-symbol-of-the-city.-529x705.jpg)
The Warsaw Uprising in Verse
By Caroline Simon
During World War II, Warsaw was the center…
13 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![Polish_kid_in_the_ruins_of_Warsaw_September_1939](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Polish_kid_in_the_ruins_of_Warsaw_September_1939.jpg)
Displaced Polish Children During World War II
By Kate Christie
You’re a child, living in Poland…
11 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![Wawel Cathedral](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Wawel-Cathedral-705x705.jpg)
In the Kazimierz district of Krakow, there stand seven synagogues
By Zoe Fruchter
In Poland, the presence of this many synagogues…
11 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![‘Es Geschah im November‘ or ‘It Happened in November’ by German-Iranian painter Kani Alavi at the East Side Gallery](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/‘Es-Geschah-im-November‘-or-‘It-Happened-in-November’-by-German-Iranian-painter-Kani-Alavi-at-the-East-Side-Gallery-705x529.jpg)
The Berlin Wall: More than Just a Physical Partition
By Madison Bollart
For the past couple of months I had been…
9 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![Jewish Cemetery Wall of Gravestones](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Jewish-Cemetery-Wall-of-Gravestones-705x528.png)
Walls
By Cesar Gray
We live much of our lives enclosed in walls, and…
7 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![IMG_9611](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_9611-528x705.jpg)
The Otherization by the Nazi Regime
By Aaron Alonso
On our trip to Berlin, Germany we got a more…
6 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![The area the club is in is filled with murals and other places where live performances take place](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/The-area-the-club-is-in-is-filled-with-murals-and-other-places-where-live-performances-take-place-705x529.png)
Comedy Post-Communist Wroclaw
By Luke Burke
My favorite place to go in Wroclaw has quickly…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![The text from the street sign in Berlin](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Photo-from-Berlin-depicting-the-street-sign-529x705.jpg)
Holocaust Memory Through Personalization
By Hannah Gavin
Studying the Holocaust is an emotional task.…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik![Celebrating Henryk Tomaszewski’s 100th Birthday](https://urbanlabsce.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Celebrating-Henryk-Tomaszewskis-100th-Birthday-705x268.jpg)
Mime Through Time: The Art of Henryk Tomaszewski From Post-Stalinist Poland to Today
By April Dvorak
To enhance my experience of studying and…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik