An incredibly stressful sprint to the airport took me from Brussels to Warsaw, where I stayed for the night before heading to my final major destination: Katowice! I will admit to having lost my emotional composure multiple times between Brussels and Warsaw, and then again more intensely between Warsaw and Katowice - misinterpreting which airport [...]
As we return to Warsaw for the last leg of our program, we all feel the weight of the last handful of weeks as well as the reality of our time as Psychology of Genocide students coming to an end. **** On our first day back, we had a later start to our programming than [...]
We began our journey to Białystok by taking time to tour the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Treblinka on the grounds of the former extermination camp. The grounds show little sign of the former camp, but the space is wide open and cleared of trees (except for those which surround the area, illustrating how [...]
After over two weeks away, we returned to our home base in Warsaw in the evening with a full day of activities planned after a quick sleep. **** On our first full day back (after grabbing Starbucks for breakfast since nothing is opened early on a Sunday in Poland!), we learned about the Ringelblum Archives, [...]
It was a bit of a surprise to us all when we realized we were a bit sad to be leaving Oświęcim - it had been a long 12 days. However, after we had received a very heartfelt farewell from our hosts and individual certificates of completion noting 80 hours of education on site, I [...]
It is Day 13 or so as I write this, which is wild to think about! I have trouble believing that I am nearly halfway through this program after so much anxiety going into it - because I have come to really appreciate my being here - but I am also acutely aware of how [...]
Warsaw was a long time ago relative to the length of the program and how long we have stayed at our next stop. Due to the demands of the program and the levels of exhaustion that accompany them, my communication in all forms has been broken and very tiring. With that in mind, I've included [...]
It's been three days of content for the course and as I write this we are preparing for a travel day that will be wrapped up with a seminar in Auschwitz, our next destination and residence for 12 days. The city of Warsaw is beautiful, and it is difficult to comprehend how much of it [...]
Allegedly I am going to Europe tomorrow. In the autumn, on a bit of a whim, I applied to a unique opportunity to study the Holocaust through a psychological lens. The application was free to submit and required some commitment to fill out but not so much that I felt obligated to go if given [...]
