Lessons from visit to Dachau

The IJN traveled to Germany as part of a delegation of Jewish communal leaders from Colorado; the delegation was sponsored by MDC Richmond Homes American Foundation. Return —— Is it possible to revisit a place you’ve never been to before?  This is a place I never intended to visit. I had opportunity but opted not to come. Yet, it is a return. “I have long contemplated the question of whether you can experience trauma from something you didn’t go through,” says Shayna Alexander, who descends from Holocaust survivors. There is a collective history here: the history of the persecuted, the history of the resistors, the history of evil. That is the potency of this place, for it represents the Nazi regime in its horrifying entirety: […]