WJU Students and Classrooms without Borders: Starachowice

Following our visit to Lublin, we again boarded buses and began our drive to Krakow, the last stop on our trip. Before we reached the city, however, we visited Starachowice, a small Polish city that was once home to a thriving Jewish community. The fate of the region's Jews has been detailed in Christopher Browning's outstanding study of the camps established by the Germans, Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp. The book is based on the stories of survivors of the camps and, fortunately for those on the trip, we were accompanied by one of those survivors, the previously mentioned Howard Chandler.