by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 9, 2025
Poland Pilgrimage #7 Bringing this Ashkenazic Ancestral Journey to a close is no easy task. I am certain I will be alchemizing and integrating this experience for the rest of my life. As I set to publish this closing entry on our two weeks of travel, I have already...
by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 9, 2025
Poland Pilgrimage #6 On the bus from Sejny to Warsaw. I can’t believe that this trip is coming to an end. I am very tired. And so grateful. And I can’t wait to see my guys, Stefan and Jonah James. We have visited many places on this trip. Traveling much of...
by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 9, 2025
Poland Pilgrimage #5 Content warning: includes brutality of ghetto life in Warsaw, Poland. Immediately upon arriving and descending from the bus the cacophony of city sounds filled our ears: Jackhammers working on the street, cars at high speeds whizzing by, metro...
by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 9, 2025
Poland Pilgrimage #4 The morning after the heaviness of Lublin and our visit to Majdanek concentration camp, we wandering pilgrims boarded our bus and rolled north to welcome Shabbat in the beautiful village of Kazimierz Dolny. Winding past vast fields of ripe...
by Cyrise Schachter | Aug 9, 2025
Poland Pilgrimage #3 Content Note: Descriptions of life and death inside a concentration camp. Lublin, Poland. Before World War 2 the Jewish population here was around 42,000 people, a third of the total population of the town. After World War 2...
