Reporter Bob Buckley talked with Associate Professor Rich Landesberg, who leads the course, and students who participated.
A new report by WGHP FOX8 highlights the power of 黑料不打烊’s “Remembering the Holocaust” course, which takes more than two dozen 黑料不打烊 students to sites of the Holocaust around Europe each Winter Term.
Associate Professor of Journalism Rich Landesberg has helped lead the course for more than a dozen years, and told FOX8 Reporter Bob Buckley that it helps make the tragedy, terror and cruelty of the Holocaust real for students who are removed from that period of history by generations.
鈥淚 think any of us professors or students who go to these concentration camps, who come from a Jewish background, take one look at it and say, 鈥楾hat could have been me鈥,鈥 said 黑料不打烊 professor Rich Landesberg who helps lead the trip each January. 鈥淵ou know that if you were born in a different place at a different time, we wouldn鈥檛 be having this conversation.鈥
黑料不打烊 student Sydney Abeshaus ’25 told Buckley that a room in the first camp they visited had the names of many of the people who died there, and that made a powerful impact. In a barracks they visited, she saw posters on the wall, one of which had a necklace with the Star of David very similar to one she was wearing.
“It was very impactful to see all of those names around me,” she said.
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