Reflections 2019

Jennifer Bloom Lynnfield, MA The Academy at Penguin HallBoston to Berlin is approximately 3,702 miles, and Boston to Poland is roughly 4,010 miles. If anything, these numbers do not discourage me, or clearly...

Alan Chak Middleton, MA Masconomet Regional High SchoolThe ability to reason is the one and only characteristic that separates us from any other form of life on the planet. Reason is what gives us our...

Maxwell Foltz Newburyport, MA Newburyport High SchoolAfter going on the Holocaust Legacy Fellows trip to Germany and Poland and further throughout the entire experience of classes and meetings it is no doubt...

Daniel Groysman Middleton, MA Masconomet Regional High School  The Holocaust was the darkest time in modern history. Over six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators through...

Zoe Hano Beverly, MA Beverly High School  Going into this trip, I thought I understood the Holocaust. I had seen so many movies and even took a course in school to try and learn about what happened, but...

Catherine Hubbard Arlington, MA Arlington High School  “It felt like this is the most important thing I’ve ever done” That is my response whenever someone asks me the infamous question, “How was your...

Jillian Lederman Marblehead, MA Marblehead High School  More than a Number I originally learned about the Holocaust as a story of numbers. This many people died, this many survived, this many still live...

Benjamin Ovadia Waban, MA Newton South High School  6,000,000 Jews and of them one million five hundred thousand children. Now those are big numbers. For as long as I can remember I have always been...

Gillian Pergament Middleton, MA Gann AcademyWhen I accepted the commitment to become a Holocaust Legacy Fellow, I knew that my personal knowledge and experience of learning about the Holocaust had been...

Danny Richmond Needham, MA Needham High School  Words cannot come close to encompassing how impactful this trip was on me and how much I learned from it. I will do my best to express some of the ways the...

Mitchell Robson Marblehead, MA St. John’s Preparatory  Over the course of my nine or so days in Germany and Poland, I reflected a lot both individually and with the group about why we are here as...

Jonah Schwartz Framingham, MA Gann Academy  The mission statement of the Holocaust Legacy Fellows is to preserve and perpetuate the memories and lessons of the Holocaust for future generations. During...

Victoria Veksler Marblehead, MA Marblehead High School  Telling friends and family about my experiences in Poland, not many were ready listeners. They know about the Holocaust, they have studied it in...

Olivia Voznyuk Swampscott, MA Swampscott High School  When I was just about ten years old, we briefly learned about the Holocaust in school. The only explanation I ever received was what the Holocaust...

Adam Zamansky Marblehead, MA Marblehead High School  There I stood halfway across the world at the concentration camp Majdanek, several feet away from a hill of ashes, the remains of 18,000 people. The...

Dina Zeldin Newton, MA Newton South High School  Birch trees stand tall in Poland. They reach up toward the heavens, where God slept. They are white and pure, and their forests invite picnic-ers and...