Walking in the footsteps of Holocaust survivors

The Holocaust means something different when you stand in the gas chamber at Auschwitz or the tunnels underneath Langenstein. How you view the resi...

August 9, 2022
3:10 AM

The Holocaust means something different when you stand in the gas chamber at Auschwitz or the tunnels underneath Langenstein. How you view the resistance changes when you see bullet holes in the sides of buildings in Warsaw or stand in the doorways through which survivors passed.Once you've walked those paths, the way you understand the Holocaust—and the way you teach it—irrevocably changes.The Holocaust means something different when you stand in the gas chamber at Auschwitz or the tunnels dug deep into the mountains by prisoners of the small Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp.

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