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We left the Warsaw area to travel east toward the concentration camp Majdanek, which is right outside of Lublin. During our journey we stopped at Kazimierz Dolny, a quaint Polish town that is now a popular day-trip destination for Poles and was once home to a sizable Jewish population.

Our second full day in Poland was an especially moving and emotional day for our group. We traveled outside of Warsaw to the small village of Tykocin, once home to a few thousand Jews but is now home to none.

Our Sunday afternoon in Warsaw was dedicated to the righteous rescuers in Warsaw.

Most of Warsaw was destroyed during World War II, so the Holocaust sites we visited in Warsaw are remnants or memorials. Our group visited the site of the former Warsaw ghetto, where the Museum of the History of Polish Jews is currently being built.

Our second day in Berlin was just as full as our first. We began our day at Bayerischer Platz, an area in Berlin where Jews were forced to move out of their homes by the Nazis.

Following our visit to the Wannsee House we went to the Denkmal (which means monument in German) or the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.”