REMEMBRANCE JOURNEYS
Remembrance Journeys are supervised one-day bus trips to Washington, D.C. for high school or middle school students to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Lincoln Memorial. Accompanying the students on the Journey are educators from each participating institution as well as Holocaust survivors and a member of the Foundation.
Approximately 45 to 50 high school or middle school students participate in each Journey. The Fund pays all costs related to the Journey. All teachers, chaperones and speakers accompanying the group volunteer their time.
On the trip to Washington, the students meet Morris Rubell – who died in 1995 – through a video in which he describes his experiences as a child survivor of the Krosno (Poland) ghetto and several concentration camps, including Plaszow, Mathausen, Melk, and Ebensee. He talks about his siblings, Marc, Lucy, Frances, and Clara, all of whom miraculously survived World War II. Incredibly, his sisters Lucy and Frances were also concentration camp survivors. Morris also relates his liberation and the aftermath.
The group then hears first hand accounts from the Holocaust survivors accompanying them on the bus. These students are the last generation who will be able to meet survivors. This is an opportunity for them to interact with survivors and to ask any questions they may have.
At the end of the academic year, the visit to the museum culminates in the Youth Leadership Seminar where all Remembrance Journey alumni from that year (often over 300 students, teachers and survivors) gather together. Here, they deepen their learning by interacting with Holocaust survivors, listening to guest speakers, and participating in innovative group activities. This program helps them internalize the message of embracing diversity and not being bystanders to bullying, hatred, and intolerance.
Remembrance Journeys Tour