What a Day!

11:00: Gave a tour of Brama Grodzka-Teatr NN in Hebrew to a group of Druze, Arab Christian, Arab Muslim and Jewish students from Israel in Hebrew.

15:00: Taught my “Dry Tears” English class (a class about my mom’s memoir of her experience during the Holocaust) to my wonderful friends at Brama Grodzka.

17:30: Gave a quick Hebrew lesson to the Polish students who will be traveling to Israel on a youth exchange at the end of the month.

18:00: Attended a talk about a book in which the author interviewed Jews who were saved by non-Jews in Poland and talked to them about their mothers, both the Jewish mothers and the non-Jewish mothers.

In between all these, I had fascinating conversations with my colleagues at Brama Grodzka.

Once again, thank you to the fellowship committee at Wellesley College who awarded me with the Mary Elvira Stevens traveling Fellowship, without which these rich experiences would only be a dream.

Me taking a picture of one of the signs at the entrance to Brama Grodzka-Teatr NN. (Elsewhere I discuss the use of the term, “Pole” to mean non-Jewish Pole. I try to avoid it because it denies the fact that Jews were and are Poles as well).

Me taking a picture of one of the signs at the entrance to Brama Grodzka-Teatr NN. (Elsewhere I discuss the use of the term, “Pole” to mean non-Jewish Pole. I try to avoid it because it denies the fact that Jews were and are Poles as well).