The Heathen Learns

The artwork of Marian Kolodziej Auschwitz prisoner #432 While this post is actually reaction and commentary to the post Auschwitz One...

Bernard Enginger was a member of the French Resistance when he was captured by the Nazis and put in  concentration camps for a year and a...

This essay by poet Kazim Ali published in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin is a gorgeous piece of work worth experiencing. A quote: I...

"By telling a story, things don't control me anymore: it's in my vernacular, it's the way I see the world. Our stories ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau: selection site Matt went back to college today. It's a long trip for him: a plane, a subway, a train, and then ...

That first night in the dormitory room in the Center for Dialogue, after spending a day at Auschwitz, my dreams were the most mundane eve...

After dinner, I came early to the first group meeting and the room was empty except for Andrzej Krajewski, the coordinator of the retreat ...

The Polish coordinator of the retreat, Andrzej, a tall, gray-haired bear of a man with warm sad eyes, opened our first me...

Now I'm not sure whether or not to share this but I guess the truth is the truth and it's hopeless to hide the enormous and mortify...

Krakow, Poland The buses to take us to Auschwitz weren't allowed on the streets near our hotel so we met in the lobby a...

Gemmon looking for Amon G ö th's house Gemmon came to Krakow with one site she wanted to be sure to see: Amon G ö th 's house ...

On the way to find Amon G ö th' s house, Gemmon and I stopped by Oskar Schindler 's factory. I don't know where I thought Os...

Never plan to see a friend you haven't seen for almost two years for the first time at 10pm if you want to get any sleep. When I...

Edinburgh I could write about the beautiful town, another castle, a city park in autumn, but that's not the sight I came to see. I ...