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, […]
April 24, 2024
Since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas against Israel, college campuses have become a flash-point for protests, whether supporting Israel or opposing it. Since late last week, there has […]
March 6, 2024
Charles Stander was born and raised in Michigan, but has lived in St. Paul for well over 40 years. For most of those forty years, he’s been a member of […]