Warsaw

Project Preservation's 2019 session was to Warsaw, Poland and included a visit to the historic grounds of the Madjanek concentration camp.

Each year students from both Jewish and non-Jewish backgrounds have gathered in the spring term to engage in tikkun olam (to repair a broken part of the world). The program commences with a 10 week study of genocide, with a particular emphasis on the Shoah. The group travels to a selected site to restore an abandoned and neglected Jewish Cemetery by righting headstones, performing general clean up, and erecting a wrought iron fence, each panel bearing the Magen David, so that it shall never be forgotten that this is sacred ground.