Finding Pola

  My good friend Tadeusz Przystojecki from Grodzka Gate Theater NN in Lublin, Poland passed away in February. Tadeusz was a historian, archi...

My mother wanted to go to college, but the war broke out and she went to work instead. She was intelligent and curious and probably would ha...

We visited Rybotyzce, Poland last May to meet Jackie’s friends who help maintain the village’s historic Jewish cemetery. Joining Robert, Ing...

The site of Majdanek, the former Nazi concentration camp, is a massive, windswept stretch of land that was eerily quiet the day I visited. A...

After six days exploring my family history in Antwerp, Jackie and I returned to Lublin. Inge Schoups, director of research at Felix Archive...

While in Antwerp last May, I visited the neighborhood where the Krymholc family had lived and tried to imagine what they experienced as they...