History EYH 2015: From Berlin to Auschwitz

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Learning about the Holocaust is so important, and this semester, I was fortunate enough to be able to take a class about the subject that not only allowed my classmates and I to advance our knowledge through class reading and survivor speeches, but also took us to the most influential places of the time: Germany and Poland.  Before the trip, we heard many Holocaust survivors talk about their own individual experiences, which was extremely moving.  For example, for one of the female survivors, Rachel Roth, we read her memoir and then attended her talk.  Having these two levels of learning made her personal experience that much more memorable for me, and I’m sure for the rest of my class as well.  Between the start of the semester and the beginning of March, we heard many more talks from other survivors as well as read more texts on the Holocaust, and then, during Spring Break, we...