Holocaust Studies
Entrance to the New Jewish Cemetary in Wroclaw.
Participants in the 2011 Poland trip.
Students carry away debris in the cemetery.
Outside the Schindler factory in Krakow.
Alongside the train tracks at Auschwitz.
Holocaust Studies Program
Service-Learning Project in Poland
May 7 – May 16, 2011
Read the 2011 Poland Trip Blog
Check out the interview! Gordon Evans of WMUK radio in Kalamazoo interviewed trip participants Megan Connolly and Jocelyn McWhirter about their experience. The piece aired on May 19, 2011. Listen to the interview and read the article!
Read the 2009 Poland Trip Blog
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.
