Albion College Holocaust Studies

Working in the New Jewish Cemetery, Wroclaw.

Holocaust Studies Program
Service-Learning Project in Poland

May 9 – May 18, 2009

NOTE:
Deadline has been
extended to
Monday, Nov. 10, 2008.

The aim of this project is to help the Jewish community of Wroclaw to tell its story….

At its peak, this community numbered in the thousands; today only a handful remain. The restoration of a large Jewish cemetery connects us with people who have preceded us in time, and engages us in recognizing their place in the “community of memory.” This project honors the place of a people who have mostly vanished from Wroclaw and Poland in the wake of the Holocaust, and helps the remaining community to reclaim an important cultural and historical artifact. As an act of historical recovery, this project stands as an active rebuke of ethnic violence anywhere in the world.

Learn more about the Poland Trip

Friday, the first full day in Krakow, the group toured the city, including the factory owned by Oskar Schindler. Here the 2005 Albion group stands before the plaque donated by the 2001 Albion group to commemorate Schindler’s rescue of 1,500 Jews who worked for him.
During a tour of Krakow, the 2005 Albion group visited the factory owned by Oskar
Schindler, posing before the plaque donated by the 2001 Albion group
to commemorate Schindler’s rescue of 1,500 Jews who worked for him.

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