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Getting ready for takeoff
An update from Ashley, a junior journalism major and sociology minor: Tomorrow is the big day! There are so many emotions and thoughts flooding my mind. I consider myself a good traveler. I spent last...
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Preparing to seek clarity
An update from Sze-kar Wan, professor of New Testament at Perkins School of Theology: On the eve of setting off for the Nazi death camps of German-occupied Poland, I feel rather apprehensive. Not about...
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Cruel Beauty
An update from Denise Gee of SMU News & Communications: The House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin — where “the architects of the Holocaust” formalized in secrecy their intention to kill 11...
View ArticleArrival in Poland
We made it to Poland and begin work tomorrow! It was nice to finally arrive at our apartments after our departure date was postponed a couple of weeks. We spent the weekend familiarizing ourselves with...
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Adventures in Poland
Czesc! Our first couple weeks in Poland have been quite an adventure. The 10-hour flight to Frankfurt wasn’t that bad. (Jon did fall asleep into someone’s lap though – haha.) At the Frankfurt airport,...
View ArticleArrival in Gdansk, Poland
As the wheels to the tiny jet hit a small runway south of the Baltic Sea, I never thought I’d be so happy to be in a country that I know almost nothing about. We had left Dallas/Fort Worth yesterday,...
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Shoes in Stutthof
An update from Patricia, a graduate student at Perkins School of Theology: “These artifacts you find at these camps once had a life of their own,” Dr. Halperin informed us today as we walked into the...
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