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Fighting Antisemitism by Visiting Auschwitz

JL;DR SUMMARY Amid growing antisemitism, exacerbated by Middle Eastern conflicts and biased media narratives, educational trips to Holocaust sites are highlighted as a potent strategy to combat denial and prejudice. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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AuschwitzHolocaustMiddle EastEducationHolocaust DenialMediaPolitical BiasYouth Education

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Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Francisco, an 11th grader at Success Academy High School of the Liberal ArtsHarlem, told Jewish Insider that witnessing Auschwitz-Birkenau, literally being inside a gas chamber, brought the horror of it all to me in a way that reading or studying history could not."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Francisco was one of eight high-school students who took part in the schools inaugural six-day trip to Poland last month, which included visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Plaszw concentration camp, and the Warsaw Ghetto."
Plaszow, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Francisco was one of eight high-school students who took part in the schools inaugural six-day trip to Poland last month, which included visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Plaszw concentration camp, and the Warsaw Ghetto."

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