November 13, 2024
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. As Democrats licked their wounds last Wednesday, some pointed […]
November 6, 2024
This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. This article was originally published Tuesday night and updated […]
July 31, 2024
A few years ago, Laura Zelle was seeking out Holocaust education trips to Europe for Minnesota K-12 teachers when she realized that there weren’t many options. “This wasn’t being offered […]
July 19, 2024
MIANOWEK, Poland – Lucien was a young boy in 1941 when the Nazis murdered 5,000 Jews near his home in the Polish countryside and left their bodies in a Soviet […]
July 16, 2024
Joanne Trangle has been instrumental in bridging Jewish communities across continents. Her passion ignited over a decade ago following the adoption of her third son from Ethiopia, which opened her […]
July 10, 2024
PRAGUE – In a quiet voice, Nick Winton prompted the group of 16 teachers to step into the shoes of Jewish parents in 1939 Europe. “Imagine what it must be […]
July 2, 2024
BERLIN – Walking around Sachsenhausen, the Nazi concentration camp located outside of Berlin, Kirsten Croone was struck by the camp’s sheer size. “What I didn’t expect was the vastness…because you’re […]
June 28, 2024
I recently planned a short trip home to New York but I had no actual plans…until I read that the Nova Music Festival Exhibition had been extended through my impending […]
June 24, 2024
TREBLINKA, Poland — In 1998, after visiting the Treblinka death camp site on a Holocaust education trip to Poland for teachers, Aimee Ross vowed she would never come again. “I […]
June 19, 2024
WARSAW, Poland — Kristin Thompson wasn’t expecting to encounter the story of her close friend, Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster, mere hours after landing in Warsaw on Tuesday. But late afternoon, […]