Articles written by Jessica Lang

Jessica Lang, JTA|Apr 24, 2015

NEW YORK (JTA)—The evening before we visited Auschwitz, over pizza with a group of young people in Oswiecim, the town on whose outskirts lies that infamous symbol, one of my students approached me with tears in her eyes. Tears are hardly uncommon to visitors of sites of mass death. But for this student—a participant in a weeklong trip to Auschwitz undertaken as part of a course on Holocaust history and literature that I teach at Baruch College in New York City—the trip marked her first time on a plane, her first time in a foreign count...