Madeline Alburtus introducing the city of Berlin as a relevant site for studying the history and memory of the Holocaust.
Students and faculty visiting the Neue Wache.
Students visiting the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma who were persecuted by the Nazi regime.
Students reading at Memorial to the Sinti and Roma who were persecuted by the Nazi regime.
Students pondering the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma.
Detail Memorial to the Sinti and Roma.
Students discussing at Memorial to Sinti and Roma.
Students at Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi regime.
Steven Kish presenting on the significance of the Memorial to Homosexuals.
Students listening to Steven Kish’s presentation.
Students exploring the Memorial to Homosexuals.
Katie Whitlock, Chris St. Aubin, and Maddie Noyes explaining the history of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Melanie DeLisa listening to a presentation by her peers.
Prof. Erin McGlothlin explaining a detail of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Students pondering the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Steven Kish in the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Chris St. Aubin in the Documentation Center of Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Students in the Documentation Center of Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Madeline Alburtus listening to a tape in the Documentation Center of the Memorial
List of recordings available in Documentation Center of Memorial to the
Madeline Alburtus, Abby Rodler, and Nicci Mowszowski in the Documentation Center of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Rain!
Berlin – House of the Wannsee Conference, 16 May 2018
The House of the Wannsee Conference.
Students discussing and reflecting after visiting the House of the Wannsee Conference exhibition; lake Wannsee behind them.
Students and faculty exploring the exhibition at the House of the Wannsee Conference.
The first page of the minutes of the Wannsee Conference.
Students reading the minutes of the Wannsee Conference.
Students in the room where the Wannsee Conference was held, i.e. where the implementation of the murder of millions of European Jews was planned.
Students in the room of introduction to the House of the Wannsee Conference exhibition.
Isabel Carleton and Kally Xu listening to Lulu Feldman.
Lulu Feldman presenting on the significance of the House of the Wannsee Conference.
Berlin – Jewish Museum, 17 May 2018
Abby Rodler introducing the history of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Students listening to Abby Rodler’s presentation on the Jewish Museum Berlin (visible in the background).
Students in the Garden of Exile, part of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
The Garden of Exile in the Jewish Museum Berlin, evoking a sense of disorientation and unsettlement.
Students in the exhibition Axis of Memory in the Jewish Museum Berlin
Students Madeline Alburtus, Nicci Mowszowski, Steven Kish, Maddie Noyes, Katie Hayes and Prof. Erin McGlothlin in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Entrance to the Memory Void an installation “Shalekhet – Fallen Leaves” by Menashe
Students exploring the installation “Shalekhet – Fallen Leaves” by Menashe Kadishman in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Isabel Carleton in the installation “Shalekhet – Fallen Leaves” by Menashe Kadishman in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Two axes of memory in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Berlin – Topography of Terror, 17 May 2018
Museum site Topography of Terror.
Students listening to peer presentation at Topography of Terror.
Isabel Carleton introducing the exhibition Topography of Terror to the group.
Students listen to guide Jan Martin O.’s introduction to the Topography of Terror exhibition.
Isabel Carleton, Maddie Noyes, Nicci Mowszowski, and Kally Xu listening to the guide at Topography of Terror.
Students with guide at the Topography of Terror.
Students between remnants of the Berlin Wall and the Topography of Terror exhibition.
Katie Hayes, Alyssa Pauly, and Madeline Alburtus listening to the guide at Topography of Terror exhibition.
Oranienburg – Memorial and Museum former concentration camp Sachsenhausen, 18 May 2018
Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen.
Kally Xu, Dan Vozza, and Lulu Feldman introducing the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen to their peers (while waiting for the train).
Steven Kish, Maddie Noyes, and Madeline Alburtus listening to the student presentation
Students waiting for the train to Oranienburg.
Guide Asoka Esuruoso explains that the walk through the town of Oranienburg follows the path many prisoners of the
Students walking through the town of Oranienburg, en route to the Museum and Memorial Sachsenhausen.
Guide Asoka Esuruoso speaking about the relationship between town and concentration camp.
Guide Asoka Esuruoso explaining a model of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Group at a model of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Prof. McGlothlin, Shayna Finkelstein, Kally Xu, Katie Hayes, and others listening to guide Asoka Esuruoso.
Students entering the ground of the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Guide Asoka Esuruoso explaining the location of roll calls in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, with Chris St. Aubin holding the map.
Maddie Noyes asking a question at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Katie Hayes and Ryan Nordheimer listening to guide Asoka Esuruoso.
Students listening to guide Asoka Esuruoso near the prison bloc of Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Students entering a barrack of former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now housing an exhibition.
Nicci Mowszowski and Shauna Finkelstein in a barrack of former concentration camp Sachsenhausen.
View of former Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Oświęcim – Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I, 20 May 2018
Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I.
Students visiting Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I.
Students and Prof. McGlothlin exploring sources related to the use of the poison gas Zyklon B in the Auschwitz concentration camp, with guide Katarzyne Wróbel.
Guide Katarzyne Wróbel at Museum and Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I.
Students listening to guide Katarzyne Wróbel at Museum and Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I.
Students at the former Execution Wall in Museum and Memorial and Museum Auschwitz
Signs of remembrance in the former Execution Wall in Museum and Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I.
Interior boundary within Museum and Memorial and Museum Auschwitz I.
Oświęcim – Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, 21 May 2018
Former concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz Birkenau, view from outside.
Students with guide Katarzyna Wróbel in the main guard tower of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
View from main guard tower of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Detail of fence at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Students and guide Katarzyne Wróbel in one of the barracks at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Lulu Feldman, Melanie De Lisa, and Alyssa Pauly listening to the guide at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Barrack in women’s camp section at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Exterior walls are disintegrating and therefore being supported by wooden structures.
Students entering a barrack in the women’s camp section at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Interior of barrack in women’s camp section at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Original wall paintings in barrack where children were interned at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Students listening to guide Katarzyna Wróbel explaining the arrival of prisoners at at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Interior guard tower at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Remnants of barrack in the so-called “Gypsy” camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
View of territory of “Mexico”, an extension of the camp that was only partially built and then dismantled.
View of the site where Jewish women, children, and elderly from Hungary were assembled in preparation of mass murder.
“To the memory of the men, women, and children who fell victim to the Nazi genocide. Here lie their ashes. May their souls rest in peace.” (Behind gas chamber and crematory No. 5.)
Makeshift memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Students in the “Kanada” section of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the barracks where prisoners’ possessions were sorted and prepared for shipment to the Reichsgebiet (Germany proper).
Students viewing the exhibition of photos found among the possessions of Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, on display in the Central Sauna at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Students at the central monument at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Ruins of crematory No. 2 at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Melanie De Lisa, Kally Xu, and Maddie Noyes contemplating at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Oświęcim – Workshop at the International Youth Meeting Center, 21 May 2018
Natalia Tkachenko opening the workshop “The Auschwitz Album – A History of a Hungarian Transport” at the International Youth Meeting Center Oświęcim.
Kally Xu, Dan Vozza, Abby Rodler, and Isabel Carleton analyzing photographs of the arrival of a transport of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Hannah Dinkel, Nicci Mowszowski, and Ryan Nordheimer analyzing photographs of a transport of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Alyssa Pauly, Shayna Finkelstein, and Melanie De Lisa discussing photographs of a transport of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Dan Vozza analyzing photos of a transport of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Abby Rodler listening to a student asking a question about photos of a transport of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Hannah Dinkel discussing photos of a transport of Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Nicci Mowszowski analyzing photos of a transport of Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Lulu Feldman asking a question about a photos taken upon the arrival of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Katie Hayes discussing the arrival of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau based on photographs.
Oświęcim – Visit to Auschwitz Jewish Center and Tour of Old Town Oświęcim (Oshpitzin), 22 May 2018 (Descriptions to follow)
Kraków – Tour of Kazimierz, former ghetto, and museum in O. Schindler’s Factory, 23 May 2018 (Descriptions to follow)
Warsaw – POLIN, 24 May 2018
Warsaw – Former ghetto territory (Muranów housing estate), 25 May 2018
Memorial stone marking the location of the ghetto in Warsaw.
Beata Chomątowska explaining central elements of the ghetto in Warsaw.
Students listening to Beata Chomątowska explaining locations within the ghetto.
Students at a mural in the Muranów district of Warsaw that commemorates the work of Ludwig Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto.
Students at a sidewalk relief marking the location of the ghetto wall, 1940-1943.
Main arch of the Muranów housing estate, a housing project built on and with remnants of the ghetto.
Residential buildings erected on mounds that contain rubble from ghetto buildings.
Students listening to Melanie De Lisa’s presentation on the Warsaw Ghetto Monument by Nathan Rapoport.
Students at the Anielewicz Mound, a memorial to members of the Warsaw ghetto underground movement who died in a bunker on Mila Street during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
Treblinka, 26 May 2018
Vilnius – “The Green House” Holocaust Museum, 27 May 2018
“The Green House” – the first Holocaust museum in Vilnius, founded by survivors immediately after the end of World War II.
Students listen to Chris St. Aubin and Isabelle Bukary introducing the city of Vilnius to the group.
Kally Xu, Dan Vozza, and Lulu Feldman explain the history of the “Green House” to the group.
Guide Milda Jakulytė begins the tour through the Green House exhibition.
Students during the tour of the Green House, learning about the history of the Jerusalem of the East–Vilnius’ rich Jewish history.
Milda Jakulytė explaining the existence of the Nazi ghetto in Vilnius.
A gravestone from a Jewish cemetery that, after World War II, was (mis-) used as a whetstone.
Memorial to Jan Zwartendijk, a Dutch diplomat who issued hundreds of visas to Lithuanian Jews trying to escape the Nazi regime.
Vilnius – Former ghetto territory, 27 May 2018
Location of the former entrance (gate) to the large ghetto in Vilna, marked by a plaque.
Guide Milda Jakulytė alerts the group to one of the first Stumbling Stones (Stolpersteine) in Vilnius, a memorial to Dr. Samuelis Margolis, who was killed in Paneriai in 1944.
Milda Jakulytė explaining the layout of the Vilna ghetto.
The group exploring the site of the former Shulhoyf, i.e. the location of a major synagogue and other Jewish institutions until their destruction.
Milda Jakulytė pointing out central features of the site of the Great Synagogue.
Milda Jakulytė and students infront of the building that housed the Judenrat (Jewish Council) during the German occupation.
The memorial to the Jews who were killed during the German occupation.
The Vilna ghetto underground movement attempted to defend the ghetto against its complete destruction. The first shot was fired from the balcony of a building on this place.
The group infront of the building that housed the ghetto library, which functioned not only as a library but also as central meeting point for ghetto inmates and the underground movement.
Building of the former ghetto library.
Vilnius – Titnago St., Paneriai, Veliučionys, 28 May 2018
Milda Jakulytė pointing to a memorial in a wooded area near Titnago street, a place where the first mass killing of Jews from Vilna in July 1941.
Memorial to Jews murdered in July 1941 near Titnago St., Vilnius, established 2011.
Nicci Mowszowski speaking about Paneriai, a mass killing site outside Vilnius, to the group.
Memorial to the Jews murdered in Paneriai.
Students at the Soviet era monument at Paneriai.
At the memorial to the last Jew killed in Paneriai in early July 1944.
One of the pits where Jews were killed en masse at Paneriai.
A pit where the so-called Burners’ Brigade, a group of prisoners who had to burn the murdered Jews, were held and from which some of them escaped through a tunnel.
Recent non-invasive archeological research has confirmed the existence of the tunnel that prisoners of the so-called Burners’ Brigade dug to escape.
Marker indicating the mass grave of the Jews of Veliučionys and other nearby settlements.
Katie Hayes discusses the mass murder of 1,159 Jews in Veliučionys in 1941.
Students on their way to the mass grave in Veliučionys, which is hard to reach due to its location in the middle of an overgrown forest.
Memorial at the killing site and mass grave of 1,1,59 Jews near Veliučionys. (Photo: Madeline Alburtus)
