At the dinner we also honored 2010 Lerner Fellow Larry Grimes, who was awarded the Robert I. Goldman award for exceptional dedication to Holocaust education.
On Tuesday, November 23, rescuer Wladyslaw Misiuna and Sara Marmurk were reunited at the JFK airport – the two had not seen each other since the end of the war.
Just as we spent one full day in Auschwitz, so too did we spend the entire next day in Birkenau, a camp that functioned differently but was equal in horror to Auschwitz.
We crossed into the main area of Krakow where we visited the still-intact Jewish quarter of the city, known as Kazimierz. We visited the old Jewish cemetery, which was desecrated by the Nazis but has since been partially restored.
We began what would be a very long day at Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Robert Jan van Pelt gave a lecture just outside the camp gate, and I will never be able to look at barbed wire the same way again.
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