UC Foundation officers and board of directors members are announced.
Students on Holocaust Tour play detectives and explore Kraków
Today we had a lighter experience, we visited the Jewish center in Oswiecim. This place not only looks at the horrible things that happened to the Jews during the Holocaust, but also at their happiness before and after the war. We got to play detectives as we handled different photos of something in the center.…
Holocaust Tour takes students to Auschwitz
Today started with layering up for the cold wind that awaits us outside. Upon arriving to the camp of Auschwitz 1, it’s not like the photos that most of us were raised on seeing, the camp is covered with two barbed wire fences and destroyed roads, but the buildings are what really take you by…
Holocaust Tour stirs emotions as students experience memorials
By Taralyn Wiley Today started out with pretty good weather with a little cold breeze as we traveled to the memorial of the gypsies and the homosexuals. It opens one’s mind to the knowledge of the killing of not only the Jews, but also other groups. The sites are very simple, but the students connected…
UTC students visit Wannsee House, Sachsenhausen Camp in first days of Holocaust tour
The beautiful walls hold a dark past. Walking through the house you can see where the conference and the living quarters would be. A feeling of almost anger comes as you sit in the same spot as those that were the masterminds of the killing of thousands of people.
Students leave UTC for Holocaust study tour, one student blogging about experience
A group of UTC students enrolled in a history course, The Holocaust: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders, will take a Holocaust study tour in Poland and Germany during UTC’s spring break.
Day 8, Friday
By Caitlin Peabody Today was another long day, not in terms of walking just because of all the memorials we visited. We started the morning off at the Holocaust Memorial and Information Site; this was probably my favorite of the day. On top were the varying sizes of cement blocks, underneath is a memorial museum.…
March 14
By Michael Lawrence So today we toured the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, right by the Brandenburg Gate, in what was previously known as no-man’s land to East Germans during the Communist Era. The Architecture was definitely a change of pace, which left the viewer to determine its message. We toured the upper half and the…
Day 7, Thursday
By Caitlin Peabody Today was an early morning. We left the hostel at around 7 and walked around the corner to a little café that served us a wonderful buffet for breakfast. Shortly after we finished our breakfast we made our way to the S-Bahn station for the hourish long train ride to the Wannsee…
Day 6, Wednesday
By Caitlin Peabody We left our lovely hotel in Krakow around 8:30 this morning and made our way to the airport. Most of the day was spent traveling, getting our public transportation passes, and checking into our hostel. At around 4:30 pm we went for an early dinner since we hadn’t officially had lunch and…