Poland
A group of Youngstown-area educators recently returned from a subsidized eight-day Holocaust education seminar in Poland, organized and subsidized by Classrooms Without Borders (CWB). The experience included powerful visits to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, and the Warsaw […]
Going to the town today was beautiful. Starting off with the bus ride to it. The whole route was just view after view. It goes to show that there’s so […]
We started our day with a walking tour of the limited remains of the Warsaw Ghetto. Among the bustling capital city of Poland are fragments of the ghetto wall, unobtrusive […]
In Majdanek’s silent blocks they lie,Echoes of lives that passed us by,A sea of shoes, a testament,To lives extinguished, souls that went. Leather worn, fabric frayed,Tiny shoes where children played,Heels […]
As an English teacher and a First Amendment professor, I spend a lot of time thinking about words. In my role as a high school English teacher, I am constantly […]
A Different Kind of Understanding: A Middle School Teacher’s Reflections on Majdanek by Traci Borden
I teach middle school ELA, and my literature textbook for 8th grade has a story in it entitled “Walking With Living Feet.” The story is about a high schooler visiting […]
Warsaw bricks on the sidewalk marking the borders of the ghettoBrick wall without the sharp glass and barbed wire appearing so non threatening , innocent in the drizzling rainNot revealing […]
Sure I could write about what I have been doing, thinking, and feeling for days, but as far as making meaning and processing this is not my method. To really […]
I have always loved history. As far as my memory allows, I have been captivated by the events that shaped the world in which I live. I served in the […]
I wondered which of the places we would be visiting would allow us to take pictures. Before I left Pittsburgh, everyone said “Make sure you take a lot of pictures!” […]