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July 20, 2009
July 20, 2009
Sarah Goldberg is spending her summer on Eastern Europe/Israel
Pilgrimage. Here's a letter from Sarah with just a bit about her trip.
hello everyone,
i had a chance to send an email and i just wanted to tell everyone
that i say hi.
Here is a sum up of everything that I have done:
I first started in Prague (aka Praha in Chezk). There the group and I
went to see lots of cemetarys and gettos. The thing about the gettos
though is that they dont feel like you are in one because all the
buildings are new. Later in Poland we had our first sad experience was
when we went to Ponar, a forrest where Jews were brought just for the
purpose of slaughter. There everyone cried. What made it really
emotional is that as we were talking about where the train was for the
convinance of the Nazis, a train passed by. We then all said Kaddish
and moved on. Then we went to Trablinka where it was pouring rain.
This made it hard for all of us. After that came Midonik, shtetles
that were wiped out and Achwitz and more. One of the more moving
experiances in the shtetle was that when we went into the beautiful
shul we all sang niguns to bring back the Jewish feel of the community.
Finally, the fun part. Israel has been an amazing few days. We had
HaEvent (colour war) and my group won 3rd place. All the ecrusyers
took a picture together and it was cute. This pasts weekend was free
weekend so I hung out with my cousin and a friend from the trip. Sorry
I dont have much to report right now. I hope that you all are having
just as great as a summer as I am.
Love,
Sarah Goldberg
Copyright 2006 Shoshana Wasser, ecrusy.org
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