
2026 Holocaust Studies Tour, Day 12: Auschwitz I & II
By 6:15 we were on the road to the Auschwitz camp complex. We met David Kennedy, my friend and incredible Auschwitz tour guide, along the way and toured both camps I and II between 8:30 and 4. It was a long, emotionally (and physically) taxing day. But the students did so well. I look forward to debriefing with them tomorrow. A few pictures are below. (Sorry, it was hard to be selective.) Afterward, David and Basia, his fiancé, invited us to see and learn about the nearby International Youth Meeting Center – a place where both of them work. They