Journey to Auschwitz
Journey to Auschwitz
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Journey to Auschwitz

auschwitz_birkenau__ii_b_n___w_by_everonaIn March 2014, we conducted a week-long Study Abroad program to Poland during spring break for the second consecutive year. Led by Professors Judy LaPietra and John Cox of the Department of Global, International & Area Studies, the program focused on historical sites related to the Holocaust and to prewar Jewish life, with special emphasis on Krakow and the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.

2014 Trip

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2013 Trip

In March 2013 we organized our first “Journey to Auschwitz” program. Sixteen students from UNC Charlotte participated.

Students see dark side of history at Auschwitz – Dr. Judy La Pietra, The Charlotte Observer

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Professors LaPietra and Chernotsky after placing butterfly at Birkenau
Student Presentation at Auschwitz
Wall of photos of Holocaust Victims
Students give short presentation
Tombstone of Holocaust survivor
Memorial for Holocaust victims
Students tour old Jewish quarter
listening to a student presentation at Birkenau
Sign reads to save a single life is to save a whole world
information sign about Polish political prisoners from Penal Company
Students with Lodz Ghetto, survivor at the Centre for Dialogue and Prayer
Butterfly project
Butterfly project
Placement of butterfly on cattle car / prisoner transport
inside Auschwitz I
Barbed-wire enclosed prisioner walkway
Birkenau
Inside a prisoner block in Birkenau
Memorial in Birkenau
Cattle car / prisoner transport
Memorial at firing squad wall at Auschwitz
Photos of nameless victims
Memorial in Birkenau
The infamous, iconic entrance to Birkenau
infamous, well-known entrance to Auschwitz
Vladimir Pegov, escaped in November 1943
A Roma family
Krakow’s stark, moving “Ghetto Memorial”
The Old Jewish Cemetery (aka Remuh Cemetery) in Krakow.
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