“When I was flying to Poland with the rest of my group I really didn’t know what to expect. Of course I had seen the itinerary for the trip, and have pictures of the camps and holocaust movies. Yet nothing could have prepared for what it would feel like to really stand in the cattle cars, walk through the gas chambers, and march with thousands of other Jewish teenagers like myself in the place where so much of family was murdered. Even now all of the experiences I had on this trip give me an indescribable feeling. The memory of marching through the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate that my grandfather walked through as he was enduring the worst of man’s evil will stay with me forever. That moment, surrounded by countless Jews of my age is a testament to the failure of the final solution. And I am beyond proud to have been a part of that.”
Micha Salzberg
