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Roma Persecution Across Time

By Aaron Alonso The Roma people have long faced persecution…
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

The Jewish Auschwitz Center: Putting Oshpitsin Back on the Map

By Jacqueline Murrer The town of Oshpitsin sits in the…
African Street Name in Berlin (by Denis Barthel)

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…
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Multifaceted Remembrance of Communism--The Good and the Bad

By Luke Burke Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe…
Inclusive elements of the T-4 Monument

Memorializing the Marginalized Groups Within the Holocaust

By Hannah Gavin As we are coming to the end of our travels abroad,…
A ceaseless heartbeat pounds from central column in the Warsaw Rising museum, bearing the symbol of the Polish resistance

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…
The mermaid represented on Warsaw's coat of arms. A symbol of the city

The Warsaw Uprising in Verse

By Caroline Simon During World War II, Warsaw was the center…
Polish boy in the ruins of the Warsaw, September 1939. Source, Julien Bryan captioned the photo in 1958: "A BOY'S WEARINESS--Ryszard Pajewski was a study in dejection when I saw him sitting on a pile of rubble. Only nine, he had suddenly been made the family breadwinner - and there was no bread to be had"

Displaced Polish Children During World War II

By Kate Christie You’re a child, living in Poland…
Wawel Cathedral

In the Kazimierz district of Krakow, there stand seven synagogues

By Zoe Fruchter In Poland, the presence of this many synagogues…
‘Es Geschah im November‘ or ‘It Happened in November’ by German-Iranian painter Kani Alavi at the East Side Gallery

The Berlin Wall: More than Just a Physical Partition

By Madison Bollart  For the past couple of months I had been…