Around 2010 I wanted to add Holocaust courses to the curriculum at Old Dominion University. I started by participating in a number of programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and in 2013 I launched a Holocaust Study Abroad. It’s amazing to me how once you start going to a place, you meet wonderful, warm people who just want to help. Dr. Gawon at Jagiellonian University has offered us a lecture on Krakow’s Jewish history every year since I’ve been coming; Maciek Zabierowski, the Learning and Special Projects Director at the Auschwitz Jewish Center, is such a knowledgeable and fun person. He offers us tour as a favor to me and enriches our student’s lives tremendously. And every year we go to “Bagelmama,” for lunch…such a fun place to eat with the best hummus in the world! This year I learned the owner is also John McEnrow’s personal chef at the Paris Open every year!
