Before the EYH trip this semester, I had never been to Germany or Poland. I had never been to Europe. I had never even had a passport. I could not fathom how visiting a totally new place with so much more history than the US would change my perception of the world. I gained so much knowledge not just regarding the victims and perpetrators of Holocaust atrocities, but also of different people and cultural practices. Now that I have Holocaust education from my experience in the locations themselves, I cannot imagine any history course that does not include a real visit to the places described in course material. Visiting Berlin gave us the opportunity to visit the Topography of Terror museum, which was extremely interesting and where I learned so much about the perpetrators of Jewish extermination; learning what I did in the museum would be impossible without this trip. Reading about a...