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Jewish Heritage Tour of Czech & Poland – Day 12: Lodz

by RabbiOlivier | May 26, 2015 | Adult Learning, Holocaust, Poland, Prague, Shoah

Before you start reading today’s post below, I must admit that I didn’t think I would write another blog entry about yet another difficult place to be. I was feeling pretty done. I was looking forward to sharing the other side of Poland, its sheer natural beauty, its...

Jewish Heritage Tour of Czech & Poland – day 10: Treblinka

by RabbiOlivier | May 24, 2015 | Adult Learning, Community, Greater Community, Holocaust, Poland, Prague, Shoah

Treblinka is an impossibly beautiful memorial. Absolutely nothing is left of the camp that once stood there. It is hard to imagine it being the case, but we have to remember that the Nazis were masters of deception and made a point of dismantling these camps to allow...

Jewish Heritage Tour of Czech & Poland – Day Eight: Warsaw

by RabbiOlivier | May 22, 2015 | Adult Learning, Community, General, Greater Community, Holocaust, Poland, Prague, Shoah

Warsaw is a city straddling several worlds and several eras. It encompasses, displayed in its make-up, the whole history of Europe. What is striking about its architecture is the mix of century old buildings (some original to their era, some rebuilt), communist era...

Jewish Heritage Tour of Czech & Poland – Day Six: Krakow

by RabbiOlivier | May 21, 2015 | Adult Learning, Community, Greater Community, Holocaust, Poland, Prague, Shoah

Krakow is a gorgeous city, especially the old-city and—as a separated quarter within it—the district of Kazimierz where the Jews lived from the middle-ages. This is the region of Galicia in Poland, the birth place of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Chasidism in the...

Jewish Heritage Tour of Czech & Poland – Day Four/Five: Auschwitz-Birkenau

by RabbiOlivier | May 19, 2015 | Adult Learning, Community, Events, Holocaust, Poland, Prague, Shoah

There is no way for me to talk about visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau. I would only say that if one is able, it is important to travel and be there to bear witness. Nothing can replace walking these sacred grounds, no book, no movie, no conversation. All I can do, I feel,...

Jewish Heritage Tour of Czech & Poland – Day Three: Terezin

by RabbiOlivier | May 17, 2015 | Adult Learning, Community, Events, General, Greater Community, Holocaust, Poland, Prague, Shoah

I have been sitting in front of my keyboard for a while now, starting and erasing, starting and erasing whatever I begin to write. How can one summarize visiting a place like Terezin, a concentration camp where thousands of Jews died and from which tens of thousands...
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