Labs

A Dream Come True: Lessons Learned While Exploring East Central Europe, and the Value of Experiencing History Firsthand

By Anna Meehan When I was young, my favorite book was “A History…
22 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Sejny as Inspiration for a Refugee Organization in Syracuse

By Sofia DaCruz In northeastern Poland, on the border of Lithuania,…
22 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Historical Retelling of Polish-Jewish Relations: The PiS as Storytellers

By Sierra Kaplan The stories we hear as kids remain in our memory…
22 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

These Walls Are Screaming: Graffiti in Central Europe

By Ian Eisenbrand When moving through the streets and…
13 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Lost Narratives: The Roma Struggle for Recognition in Europe

By Leanne Rivera Today according to the EU Multimedia…
12 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

(In)Accessible Spaces: Struggles and Solutions Through the Lens of Memorial Sites

By Sierra Kaplan 800 stairs down, 135 meters deep, 3.5…
12 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Living Spaces as Memorials and Places of Memory

By Andrew Emerson Throughout human history there is no shortage…
11 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Observing Relationships Between Soviet Memorials and Public Memory in East-Central Europe

By Anna Meehan Soviet memorials can be encountered across Central…
11 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Nature Is the Strongest Healing Force

By Kennedy Snyder Throughout our travels and studies, we have…
11 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

The Linguistic Power of the Bavarian Quarter

By Charlotte Goodman Jew (jü) Noun 1. a person belonging…
7 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

An Ode to The German Jewish History of Wroclaw

By Maddie Hartog “After every war someone has to tidy up. Things…
7 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Treptower Park Soviet War Memorial: A View of Berlin Through Red Tinted Glasses

By Suryansh Singh Situated alongside the serpentine banks of…
6 December 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Democracy Idealized Through Dinnerware: Small Objects Tell a Much Larger Story

By Abigail Wright In the final stretch of our visit to Birkenau,…
30 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Memorials Made Visible: School Curriculums as Essential to Memory Work

By Sofia DaCruz Walking through the streets of Amsterdam with…
29 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Pope Saint John Paul II and Reality vs Perception

By Andrew Emerson Pope John Paul II is a figure whose legacy…
21 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Replanting the Tree of Life

By Charlotte Goodman It’s a beautiful day. You’re walking…
19 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Remembering the Children of War

By Leanne Rivera During the Second World War, countless children…
19 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Shades of Whiteness: Perceiving Restoration Efforts of Formerly Jewish Spaces Within Poland

By Sierra Kaplan Every Rynek can leave the average tourist…
19 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

The Importance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

By Kennedy Snyder Throughout our time on the traveling…
19 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

The Kotwica

By Ian Eisenbrand In Polish, Kotwica means anchor. It is also…
17 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

What is Effective Storytelling? City Wide Fantastical Creatures Compared to the Borderland Foundation

By Maddie Hartog When walking through Krakow, I was inclined…
17 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Fortifying History: A Look at Castles in Poland

By Suryansh Singh For me, visiting a castle is a mystical…
17 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

“Forum” and “Shrine”: A Tool for Analyzing Museums

By Sofia DaCruz I have visited many museums in my life, subconsciously…
16 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Civilians During Polish Uprisings Memorialized in Exhibitions: Men As “Brave” And Women As “Selfless”

By Abigail Wright Do not think, do not look, persevere, survive.…
16 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Cultures in Exile: The Impact of Ukrainian and Belarusian Identities on the Souls of Polish Cities

By Anna Meehan You can tell a lot about a city from the sights…
16 November 2023/by Anita Jakubik

Underdogs: How Unlikely Figures Present Hope for Change

By Harrison Vogt A Movement in Communist Poland Provides Hope…
19 December 2021/by Ula Klobuszewska

To See or Not to See: The Visibility of Historical Monuments

By Anna Sebree The purpose of a monument is to be seen. A…
10 December 2021/by Ula Klobuszewska

Płaszów: A Recreational Park Built on a Concentration Camp

By Capriana Cormier KL Płaszów was a Nazi concentration…
6 December 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Rosja and Польша

By Max Goldberg Current headlines about the state of political…
6 December 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Public Memory and Remembrance in Berlin

By Ella Farrell With over fifty memorials and monuments, the…
6 December 2021/by Anita Jakubik

The 11th Commandment-“Never be a bystander”: Reflections of Human Indifference and Unresponsiveness to Atrocious Behavior and Why Speaking-Up Matters

By Harrison Vogt In the poem Campo Dei Fiori, Czesław…
5 December 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Where can you Build a McDonald’s in Poland?

By Connor Arneson In Kraków, south of Old Town, near the intersection…
2 December 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Confronting Memory in Urban Space

By Sophie Creager-Roberts This semester I participated in courses…
2 December 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Castles: Telling More Than Just Fairytales

By Capriana Cormier While in Poland, I had been able to visit…
2 December 2021/by Anita Jakubik

The Hidden History of the Holocaust

By Ella Farrell On our bus ride to Treblinka, I remember not…
25 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Minyan Man

By Max Goldberg A week before I was set to arrive in Wrocław,…
25 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Life After War: The Bad, the Bad, and the Worse

By Anna Sebree There are no two ways about it: life after war…
25 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Poland’s Government is Winning the Battle for the Internet

By Connor Arneson Throughout our travels in Poland, we…
24 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Historical Politics: An Enduring Dilemma

By Sophie Creager-Roberts On November 12, 1989 --three days…
20 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

How Eco-Tourism Provides a Framework to Keep-Out Extractive Industries: Dobków, Poland’s Case for Protecting the Environment

By Harrison Vogt The tale of an industry entering a town, extracting…
20 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Treblinka: The Invisible Extermination Camp

By Capriana Cormier When people learn about the Holocaust,…
15 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

The Fallacy of Jewish History in Contemporary Poland

By Anna Sebree Poland is a beautiful and complicated country.…
8 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Poland’s Government Preaches Flawed History… and so Did I

By Connor Arneson Like most other right-wing governments, nationalism…
6 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

The Significance of the Sejny Synagogue

By Ella Farrell The decision to spend a semester in Poland…
6 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

Guarding Memory through Ecology

By Sophie Creager-Roberts Since the end of World War II, Poland…
6 November 2021/by Anita Jakubik

“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

Roma Persecution Across Time

By Aaron Alonso The Roma people have long faced persecution…
14 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

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

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

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

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

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

The Warsaw Uprising in Verse

By Caroline Simon During World War II, Warsaw was the center…
13 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Displaced Polish Children During World War II

By Kate Christie You’re a child, living in Poland…
11 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

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

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

Walls

By Cesar Gray We live much of our lives enclosed in walls, and…
7 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

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

Comedy Post-Communist Wroclaw

By Luke Burke My favorite place to go in Wroclaw has quickly…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Holocaust Memory Through Personalization

By Hannah Gavin Studying the Holocaust is an emotional task.…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

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

A Memorial in Dialogue: Reflecting on History in Berlin

By Esmé Rummelhart Artists must make a multitude of choices…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Resisting Fear: The Ringelblum Archive

By Kate Christie Resistance can take many forms. It can be physical,…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Oswiecim: Living in Auschwitz Today

By Jacqueline Murrer When someone mentions the name,…
5 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

The Presence of Absence: Remembering the Holocaust on Yom Kippur

By Zoe Fruchter There is a prayer towards the climax of the…
3 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

When Good Intentions Don’t Translate into Proper Actions

By Maryrose Dollard During my travels through Krakow, Poland…
3 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Erasing the Past: How Totalitarian Regimes Sought to Camouflage their Crimes

By Madison Bollart When we think about totalitarianism, an immediate…
3 December 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Navigating Berlin’s Ode to its Past

By Caroline Simon Our walk ends in a huge square in the central…
20 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Peace where Peace was Lost: Civil Society’s Role in Challenging the Marginalization of Roma People

By Kate Christie Throughout our travels across Europe, we’ve…
19 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Different interpretations of the Holocaust

By Aaron Alonso In the various countries that we have visited…
15 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Peeling Back the Whitewash: Understanding Austria’s Role in the Past Through its Memorials

By Madison Bollart Throughout our two weeks of travel in Central…
11 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

A Proper Monument to the Jewish Victims of the Holocaust

By Hannah Gavin “How does one mourn for six million people…
9 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

The Right to be a Cosmopolitan

By April Dvorak As I immerse myself in Central Europe…
9 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Opening my Eyes to Antisemitism’s Development in the Interwar Period

By Caroline Simon Prior to embarking to Europe on my study…
9 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Hitchcock, Welles, Kurosawa, Riefenstahl?

By Luke Burke I was unsure of what to do on my first night in…
9 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

How the Mob Mentality Affected Europe for 50 Years

By Maryrose Dollard In my studies in Central Europe, the information…
9 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

The House of Terror: A Distortion of Public Trust

By Jacqueline Murrer Whether it be for art, architecture, or…
7 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

The Transmission of Memory

By Esme Rummelhart Traveling through Central Europe, history…
7 November 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Beyond Monuments: Street Names as Alternative Memorials in Vienna and Wrocław

By Zoe Fruchter “The everyday phrases are the hardest to change,”…
29 October 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Monopoly on Violence

By Cesar Gray Say, if violence were a product, exchangeable…
29 October 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Video Documentary: White and Stupid Confessions of an activist

Hanz produced a short documentary about Maciej Mandelt, a full-time…
6 February 2019/by Anita Jakubik

The Holocaust and the Principle of Humanization in its Teaching

By Mia White The Second World War and its atrocities ended…
29 January 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Forgotten or Ignored; The Legacy of German African Colonialism

By Tayla Myree “No matter what government happened to be…
20 January 2019/by Anita Jakubik

A Proper Memorial to the Holocaust

By Alexander Wilgocki Europe, specifically Central Europe,…
20 January 2019/by Anita Jakubik

I Went to a Far-Right Nationalist March on Poland’s 100th Independence Day

By Raymundo Juarez My professors warned us against it. They…
20 January 2019/by Anita Jakubik

A Living Paradox: Black and American in Central Europe

By Autumn McMillan “In America, the color of my skin had…
20 January 2019/by Anita Jakubik

Who Are Memorials For?

By Jay Skelton As our group traveled around Europe, the most…
21 December 2018/by Anita Jakubik

The “Other” Jewish History

By Meredith Conway I don’t believe our visit to the POLIN…
21 December 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Desecrated Graves: Tombstones and Selfies

By Aren Burnside When examining history, there is often a…
5 December 2018/by Anita Jakubik

The Contrast Between Life and Death

By Kristen Varganova As we’ve traveled from one country…
5 December 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Memory Culture, in Three Parts

By Abbey Metzler One. I had been in Poland for just…
5 December 2018/by Anita Jakubik

More than a Statistic: Memorializing Jewish Victims of the Holocaust as Individuals Rather than a Number

By Clare Toner As I entered Auschwitz for the first time,…
5 December 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Observations from German History Studies

By Edward You During my stay in Berlin, the experience…
27 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

The Children of Atrocities

By Anthony Russo Before coming to Europe and seeing all the…
27 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Working in Secret

By Kyra McDermott In today’s recounting of history, Auschwitz-Birkenau…
27 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Suffering for Freedom: Socialist Realism in Memorialization

By Taylor Krzeminski “Herein lies the strength of the Red…
26 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Who’s Watching?

By Sarah McLafferty One of the most characteristic aspects…
26 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Rethinking Remembrance

By Rody Conway The 20th century was a century of unprecedented…
26 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

What Constitutes a Good Museum?

  By Ciera Moore Since coming to Central Europe, we…
26 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

This History Is (Not) For You

By Aren Burnside Monuments, memorials, and museums all attempt…
26 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

The Birth of an Idea

By Raymundo Juarez At 6:00, on a Saturday morning, my alarm…
26 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Nations as Extended Family

By Autumn McMillan I’ve been to five countries in the last…
20 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

The Political Power of Victimhood and Guilt

By Jay Skelton Everyone has been a victim of something, of…
20 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

In the Public Eye: Budapest Monuments and the Idea of Victimhood

By Mia White Budapest is known for its many gorgeous and unique…
20 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

The Roma Are People Too

By Clare Toner Part of what drew me to the Central Europe…
13 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Let History Speak for Itself

By Kyra McDermott In every corner of the world, monuments…
13 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Anachronistic Architecture

By Rody Conway Can a city be out-of-place?  Vienna and Budapest,…
13 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Overshadowing Holocaust Remembrance in Central Europe

By Taylor Krzeminski In Central Europe, memorialization of…
13 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Places of Worship Commercialized

By Anthony Russo During all of our travels the one thing I was…
13 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Children of The Diaspora

By Hanz Valbuena “Asgard is not a place, it’s a people.”…
10 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Reformers, Protesters, and Dissidents in a Communist Czechoslovakia

By Alexander Wilgocki Depending on your age, it may be difficult…
10 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Memorialization Through Romafuturism

By Tayla Myree “We need a Malcolm X,” said Ladislava Gaziova,…
9 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Looking at Central Europe Through Its Synagogues

By Ciera Moore The influence of Jewish culture and religion…
7 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Hammer and Sickle; Canvas and Brush

By Abbey Metzler Let me tell you a story. The year is…
7 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Is There a Common Memory Between Europe and China?

By Edward You The year of 2018 marks the 5th anniversary of…
7 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Protesting a Memorial with Another Memorial: How Hungary Remembers Its Role in the Holocaust

By Meredith Conway How can we accurately and fairly recount…
6 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

What Makes a Nation a Victim?

By Sarah McLafferty There are certain elements of European…
1 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

Painful Prague

By Kristen Varganova Although all the countries we visited…
1 November 2018/by Anita Jakubik

A History of Anti-Ukrainian Sentiment in Poland

By Timothy Li Although I have not personally attended the…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska

The Macedonian Crisis: A Tale of a Confused Nation

By Timothy Li When people hear about the name Macedonia, usually…
31 January 2018/by Ula Klobuszewska

Irredentism 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 Klobuszewska

Complex 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 Anita Jakubik

Did Poland and Hungary Lose Their EU Pride?

Written by Ivan Laryionenka A strong, prosperous and proud…
21 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

Resilience

Written By Deborah Sue-Ho As I walked past barracks where…
21 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

Wawel Castle: An Enduring Symbol of Polish Identity

Written By Caroline Bartholomew Throughout its long and tumultuous…
21 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

Baby Killers

Written by Cynthia Wang What could I possibly hope to tell…
21 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

Ignoring the Memory of Auschwitz

By Cate Ferson While looking through the calendar for this…
8 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

The Communist Terror in Hungary

By Bryan Alicea During the Second World War, Hungary was allied…
8 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

A Monumental Dilemma – What To Do with Confederate Identity in America

By Diego Franco “Monuments are the grappling irons that…
8 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

Auschwitz: Graveyard or Media Platform

By Leah Killian When visiting places like Auschwitz-Birkenau…
8 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

The Soviet Cover-up of Jewish Identity

By Leah Killian Jewish Identity in Central and Eastern Europe…
8 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

Handling Memory through Public Memorials

By Deborah Sue-Ho As Central European countries attempt to…
7 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

The Lety Camp

7 November 2017/by Anita Jakubik

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 Klobuszewska

How 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 Klobuszewska

Preserving a Forgotten Past

By Stella Van Ness The city of Wroclaw, Poland has a lengthy…
26 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska

The Rise Of Dark Tourism

By Jonalynn Lao There is no doubt that the tourism industry…
26 June 2017/by Ula Klobuszewska

Eyes 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 Klobuszewska

The 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 Klobuszewska

A 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 Klobuszewska

Kriesi 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 Klobuszewska

Leaving Space for Memory

By: Jake “Andy” Fabrizio Historical injustices do not…
3 December 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska

A 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 Klobuszewska

Paneriai Forest: Laid to Rest

By: Madeline Diorio It is like an old story heard throughout…
4 November 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska

Preserving 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
Photo by Arielle Ingrassia

Auschwitz

For many people around the world with the most basic understanding…
23 June 2014/by Ula Klobuszewska
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