After 24 days of traveling (I can’t believe it! 24 DAYS?!!), I am feeling old and achy all over. And I have finally surrendered to the summer cold that has been chasing me this last week. But when I woke up to a tiny…
I wanted to add that in no way did I intend this post to diminish or trivialize the horror and devastation caused by the evil Nazi regime. It shares my experience at a Festival held on the grounds of the Walbrzych Castle. With the title The Festival of…
It is very exciting to find a document with your ancestor’s names on it, but there can be no greater excitement than actually visiting the land they once called home. My great-grandmother’s birthplace of Hirschberg became Jelenia Gora after the Polish/Germanic borders changed in…
In September of 1940, Hitler and his henchmen marched into to Paris. He took one look – literally one look – at the Eiffel Tower and said, “Yes, I’ll take that….” More than 70 years later, historians are still scratching their heads of the sheer scope of…