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More short films of Jewish life Prior to the Third Reich, these movies are on every inch of the walls in a long room.
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The Holocaust and the Principle of Humanization in its Teaching

By Mia White The Second World War and its atrocities ended…
The Shoes on The Danube memorial in Budapest, marks a spot where thousands of Jews were shot into the Danube river. This site is perhaps controversial for lacking descriptors, but it forces people to think about what had happened.
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Who Are Memorials For?

By Jay Skelton As our group traveled around Europe, the most…
The replication of the ceiling of Gwoździec, a wooden synagogue in pre-war Poland. The exterior roof of the synagogue emerges from the first floor of the museum inside a glass casing.
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The “Other” Jewish History

By Meredith Conway I don’t believe our visit to the POLIN…
A Visitor Takes a Selfie at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Desecrated Graves: Tombstones and Selfies

By Aren Burnside When examining history, there is often a…
Sinti-Roma memorial, surrounded by nature, overlooking the German Parliament. (Credit: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/monument-to-sinti-and-roma-murdered-in-the-holocaust-opens-in-berlin-a-863212.html)
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The Contrast Between Life and Death

By Kristen Varganova As we’ve traveled from one country…
Bloc 11 in Auschwitz shows the images a photographer took of prisoners upon their arrival at the camp these images were used to identify prisoners if they were to escape.
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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,…
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The Children of Atrocities

By Anthony Russo Before coming to Europe and seeing all the…
Arbeit Macht Frei
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Auschwitz-Birkenau: Working in Secret

By Kyra McDermott In today’s recounting of history, Auschwitz-Birkenau…
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photo by Taylora Krzeminski
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Rethinking Remembrance

By Rody Conway The 20th century was a century of unprecedented…
Artifacts at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance
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This History Is (Not) For You

By Aren Burnside Monuments, memorials, and museums all attempt…