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Auschwitz II-Birkenau – Photo taken of a postcard purchased at gift shop

One Path Leads to Another and Another

By Erin Harrison As I stood on the platforms of Grunewald…
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The Invisible Memorial

By Emilie Bouchard As a child, whenever I visited a memorial…
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Dwelling in Countermemorials

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The Imperfect quest for a “Perfect” Memorial

By Lindsay Zerfas “We would like to know how you would generate…
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German Memorials: Respect, Education and Reconciliation

By Brigitta Pupillo From the start of our trip in Central…
The Challenge of Remembering

Auschwitz: The Challenge of Remembering

By Arielle Pressman Today, the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau…
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Putting a Face to a Name

By Domenica Vera I have been asked many times why I have decided…
Auscwitz enterance Photo credit Katherine Vargas
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Heaven is a Place on Earth

By Katherine Vargas We disembarked our bus at a commercial…
A map of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex
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70 Years, 9 Months, and 20 Days

By Renata Husted It has been 70 years, 9 months, and 20 days…
Tomasz Kozak's mural entitled Poles! One More Effort! is being shown at the Galeria Labyrint in Lublin, Poland. The artist uses motifs of Polish Romanticism to condemn anti-Semitism

We don’t discuss the echoes

By Farrell Brenner As a patrilineal Jew and a student…