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Plaszow Concentration Camp Memorial

Twenty members of the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ community participated in a study tour of Holocaust sites in Poland Dec. 18-30, 2014. 

Led by Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Embrey Human Rights Program (EHRP) Director Rick Halperin, 16 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ students traveled with two Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ staffers and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor James K. Hopkins, who teaches European history in Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. The group visited cities and death camps throughout Poland, where, during World War II some 4,375,000 people were murdered during the Nazi, Germany, occupation.

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Upcoming Human Rights Tours

Twelve students in Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s Student Leadership Initiative (SLI), sponsored by the Embrey Human Rights Program, will participate in a service-learning trip to Costa Rica Jan. 2-12, 2015. The SLI students will be led by Dr. Howard J. Recinos, Professor of Church and Society at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Perkins School of Theology, and Dr. Joci Caldwell Ryan, a lecturer in the women’s and gender studies program of Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s Dedman College of Humanities Caldwell-Ryan.

Another Holocaust-focused trip will have Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ students, faculty and staff visiting Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 7-13, 2015. Led by EHRP director Rick Halperin, 12 undergraduate and master’s level students will travel to the country along with Vicki Hill, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s Assistant Dean for the University Curriculum. In an effort to address past, present and future identity issues stemming from what happened in Hungary before, during and after its Nazi-occupation in World War II, the group will meet with Holocaust survivors, witnesses and rescuers.

Blogs from earlier tours of Holocaust sites

In previous years, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ students, faculty and staff have toured Holocaust sites as part of Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ' Embrey Human Rights Program. Read their blogs:

• . (Winter 2012) Eighteen professors, academic professionals, students and community members from Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and across Texas traveled through Poland to study the Holocaust.
     
• . (Spring 2011) During spring break 2011, students, faculty and staff are visiting Holocaust sites in Germany.
     
•  (Winter 2011) During winter break 2011, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ students and professors and Dallas community members traveled through Poland to study the Holocaust.
     
• . (Spring 2010) During Spring Break 2010, students, faculty and staff visited World War II sites in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, including the Bikernieki Memorial, where 40,000 Jews were slain; the Jewish Museum in Riga; and the Jungfernhof concentration camp.
     
• . (Winter 2010) In December 2010, the Embrey Human Rights Program is took students and staff on a tour to Poland, where they will visit World War II memorials and concentration camps.