The Significance of the Sejny Synagogue
By Ella Farrell
The decision to spend a semester in Poland…
Guarding Memory through Ecology
By Sophie Creager-Roberts
Since the end of World War II, Poland…
“Jewish-themed Restaurants,” the Jewish Mafia, and Other Reasons Why I’m Upset
By Max Ditchek Goldberg
Preface: I first began writing this…
Roma Persecution Across Time
By Aaron Alonso
The Roma people have long faced persecution…
The Jewish Auschwitz Center: Putting Oshpitsin Back on the Map
By Jacqueline Murrer
The town of Oshpitsin sits in the…
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…
Multifaceted Remembrance of Communism–The Good and the Bad
By Luke Burke
Soviet domination of Eastern and Central Europe…
Memorializing the Marginalized Groups Within the Holocaust
By Hannah Gavin
As we are coming to the end of our travels abroad,…
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 Warsaw Uprising in Verse
By Caroline Simon
During World War II, Warsaw was the center…
Displaced Polish Children During World War II
By Kate Christie
You’re a child, living in Poland…
In the Kazimierz district of Krakow, there stand seven synagogues
By Zoe Fruchter
In Poland, the presence of this many synagogues…
The Berlin Wall: More than Just a Physical Partition
By Madison Bollart
For the past couple of months I had been…
Walls
By Cesar Gray
We live much of our lives enclosed in walls, and…
The Otherization by the Nazi Regime
By Aaron Alonso
On our trip to Berlin, Germany we got a more…
Comedy Post-Communist Wroclaw
By Luke Burke
My favorite place to go in Wroclaw has quickly…
Holocaust Memory Through Personalization
By Hannah Gavin
Studying the Holocaust is an emotional task.…
Mime Through Time: The Art of Henryk Tomaszewski From Post-Stalinist Poland to Today
By April Dvorak
To enhance my experience of studying and…