Several of these blog entries are reflections of various aspects of the holocaust-studies tour. These essays are designed to provide the reader with specific information about various memorials and locations as well as a personal reflection of meaning associated with a location or feature of a memorial. Some blog entries will not be animated by the holocaust-studies tour.
Additionally, I recently completed a writing project overhauling a behavior and social sciences statistics textbook. Some selected sidebar essays that may be of interest to a more general audience have been extracted and placed in this section of the website.
Holocaust Studies Tour – Day 8 (Group 2)
Auschwitz On Monday we visited Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau). Only pictures today (with captions): Tomorrow we will go through the museum at Schindler’s Enamel Works Factory.
Holocaust Studies Tour – Day 6 (Group 2)
Free Berlin Yes, I’m a day behind…again. Saturday was ”Free Berlin.” Some of the places hit by students were: The Pergamon, Berliner Dom, Bodes Museum, Bundestag (Reichstag), Olympic Stadium, Wannsee Hause, and Potsdam. Here are some pictures: Sunday we traveled to Kraków, Monday is Auschwitz.
Holocaust Studies Tour – Day 5 (Group 2)
Ravensbrück The group spend several hours traveling north of Berlin by regional train to the idyllic German city of Fürstenberg-an-der-Havel. Sitting across a lake from this beautiful northern German city are the tortured grounds of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp – where we learned that the Holocaust is not merely a masculine phenomenon, it is a human one. Here are some pictures from the day: Here are some thoughts a put together related to this camp: https://paulnesselroade.com/blog/ravensbruck-and-the-nature-of-evil/ Tomorrow is “free Berlin.” On Sunday we will make our way to Kraków.
Holocaust Studies Tour – Day 4 (Group 2)
Sachsenhausen Short and sweet today – I am exhausted. Here are some pics from our visit to this very important camp sitting just 20 miles north of Berlin. Tomorrow we will take a regional train up to Furstenberg-an-der-Havel and visit Ravensbrück.
Holocaust Studies Tour – Day 3 (Group 2)
U.S. Embassy, the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and time to explore Wednesday’s agenda had us visiting the U.S. Embassy (thanks to Dan Hutchens and his connections), an exploration of the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and then some free time to explore the city. Here are some pictures from the day (we are still waiting for the folks at the U.S. Embassy to send us some pics – we weren’t allowed to take any): On Thursday we will go out to Oranienburg, a community just to the north of Berlin – the location of one of the most significant concentration camps
Holocaust Studies Tour – Day 2 (Group 2)
Brandenburg and East Side Gallery On Tuesday, the group was accompanied by Dr. Christian Marx out to Brandenburg-an-der-Havel, a beautiful historic city about 45 minutes by regional train to the east of Berlin. Here we explored the town and had an extensive presentation and educational experience at the memorial/museum situated on the grounds of the first euthanasia actions in Nazi Germany. Then, later in the evening, many of us made our way to the East Side Gallery and finally on to dinner in Alexanderplatz. A full and challenging day. Here are some pics: Tomorrow we will visit the U.S. Embassy