Never Again: Visit Auschwitz-Birkenau to Combat Anti-Semitism
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This Week in Review: Auschwitz-Birkenau Journalism Seminar
Last week was an emotional one for me. I finally visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau - the symbol of the Holocaust and largest genocide against Jews ever perpetrated. Today, it’s now a memorial and museum.
I catalogued the experience first at Townhall like this:
Since last October 7th, anti-Semitic attacks have risen nearly 200 percent in the United States. This is unconscionable but, sadly, not surprising. Cowardly universities are actively coddling, kowtowing to, and even encouraging Hamas supporters to harass Jewish students. Nor does it help when fellow journalists elevate individuals like Ta-Nehisi Coates who publish books that dehumanize Israel, the Jewish homeland, and her people. Equally problematic is knowing 20 percent of young Americans aged 18-to-29—or one in five individuals—deny the Holocaust ever happened.
Where did our country - and the world - go wrong here?
While vacationing in Lithuania last month, I noticed an open call for journalists to attend the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s annual "History, Memory and Responsibility" Journalism Seminar. I immediately applied and soon received word of my acceptance into the program. Given the state of affairs in our country, I felt obligated to attend. How could I, an American with Jewish ancestry, not participate? It was an easy yes for me.
Earlier this week, I journeyed from Northern Virginia to Krakow, Poland, and took a train to Oswiecim - the Polish town that Nazis occupied and converted into one of the worst concentration and extermination camps out there: Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 1.1 million individuals, namely Jews, perished.
My visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau coincided with the passing of Lily Ebert, the 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor who took social media and educated followers about “Never Again.”
I’ve just barely scratched the surface on my trip. I’ll be sharing more scenes at Outsider on the Inside later this week.
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