After a long and emotional day visiting both Auschwitz and Birkenau, the teens were given time to reflect on their personal experiences. They were given an option of writing a journal entry and one teen offered to share his story. Below is Eli Rosen’s thoughts on visiting the camps: I’m in Auschwitz. Birkenau itself is [...]
Central Europe Discovery #1
This journey gets more exciting as the days go on. First off, we took a drive on the bus through the Buda side of Hungary (Buda and Pest is split by the Danube River) to a memorial of 60 pairs of shoes on the ledge of the Danube Riverwalk to commemorate 60 Hungarian Jews who [...]
After a long day of travel we finally landed in Prague, and met with our amazing tour guide Moran! Our first stop was walking around old town Prague and then enjoyed a delicious dinner at the local Chabad house. We finished off the night with some ice breaking activities and headed off to bed to [...]