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We spent the 12th at the small town of Dąbrowa Tarnowska. It was Holocaust Remembrance Day which was honored by the surrounding primary and secondary schools. The mayor, Krzysztof Kaczmarski, showed me a book with pictures and documents of a US marine that came from their town. We then marched with the students who were all carrying Polish flags to the city hall. Then we met with students our age and learned a little about their school and taught them about ours.

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This is a restored synagogue built over 150 years ago in the small town of Dabrowa Tarnowska. When the local guide told us that there were was much doubt about the restoration after being bombed during WWII, it was so uplifting to hear that the locals still raised money towards the project. Hasidic Jews prayed in the synagogue, and it was tragic to learn that these Jews could easily be noticed for the way they looked and sent to camps.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day well spent. Watching these students perform for this event was a pleasure, and they all have so much talent. I enjoyed watching them, and appreciated the fact that they are so involved with their history, as there was a good turnout there, with many people involved.

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Today we visited a synagogue from the Nazi era and had been partially destroyed under communism. The synagogue belonged to the state and not the town under communism but, the town fought to get it back in 2006. After they regained the building they renovated it and tried to restore it to it’s old form. It’s not an active synagogue but it shows the rememberance of what used to stand there.

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Today we went to Dąbrowa Tarnowska for Holocaust rememberence today. One thing that stood out to me today was watching the students sing in a competition in honor of Holocaust Rememberence Day, and marching with the primary school to the town square. Another one of my favorite parts of today was meeting kids who were our age from the high school and learning about their school. Making new friends on this trip has made it 100% better and inhancing the experience. I feel very lucky to know so many diverse people.

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Today in the town of Dabrowa Tarnowska, we visited a synagogue that was bombed during the second World War. The Germans dropped a bomb on this town, destroying the synagogue, the town, and the people as well. After the war was over, the synagogue was left destroyed and untouched up until 2006 when three local teachers decided to raise money to restore it. It took a lot of time and effort to raise almost $3.5 million in order to restore the synagogue to its original look. These teachers were able to go against the odds of the entire town and turn a damaged, hopeless building into an architecturally beautiful building. Granted the building

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A highlight of our visit to Dabrowa Tarnowska was seeing a local school’s performance in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Many talented students performed songs in honor of today, many singing songs that either referenced the Holocaust or was a part of Jewish culture. It was amazing to see the students take this day so seriously and put in so much time and effort to remember the Holocaust. It was a great experience working with the students as well. Learning about Polish schooling and culture was interesting, and I had a great time spending the day with them.

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Today we went to a Holocaust Remembrance Day event, where talented children and teens celebrated this day by singing. It was very interesting to see how they chose music to honor the memory of the victims. As we saw in the museum in Terezin, music was very important and was a way for victims of the Holocaust to hold onto something from their past life.

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A highlight from the last two days to me would be seeing the Otto Wolf hideout. This stood out so much to be because it shows the hardships the hideaways went through to just to get there. And it wasn’t just one trip they did this consecutively for 3 years through all types of seasons. This memorial was not always there & I actually learned that previous HST groups helped the town put this together in remembrance of Otto Wolf, so to see us from New Milford go half way across the world to do such a great thing for the history of the holocaust