Monthly Archives: August 2018

A few months before my internship at the Galicia Jewish Museum started, I was having a conversation with a friend of the parents of my college housemate. I had just met her that evening as I was a guest at … Continue reading →

A summer interning at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków, Poland, is a summer primarily spent in one of two places: behind the reception desk or with a tour group in the Traces of Memory exhibition. Though daunting at first—whether … Continue reading →

Just a few days after my arrival to Kraków I was given the great opportunity to accompany a group of Jewish community members from Kraków and Katowice on a trip to Bielsko-Biała to meet the local Jewish community and discover the … Continue reading →

The internship program at the Galicia Jewish Museum marked my third consecutive summer in Kraków, but unlike the independent research I pursued twice before, I was initially unsure about the program. Would I like my fellow interns? Would my tour … Continue reading →

Recently, our intern associate and friend Adam toured a group of us around the site of the former ghetto and Plaszow Concentration camp. He interlaced his tour with stories from his grandfather’s time in Krakow during the war, adding a … Continue reading →