P2K - Shoah Experience to Poland and Israel
Personal Experiences

"Two weeks have passed since I returned from my trip to Poland. Yet what I experienced there haunts me still. The sights I saw, the stories I heard, the thoughts that passed through my mind – all seem so real and close..."
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"I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to participate in Partnership 2000. It was amazing to be involved with a group of 70 Jewish children from South Africa and Israel..."
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"Having been fortunate enough to have just returned from the IUA/Partnership 2000 Poland/Israel trip, I was asked to write a brief article about my trip ... It seems to me now that writing about the experience, to some extent, does the trip an injustice. It is impossible to convey how much my life as a person, or more specifically as a Jew and a Zionist has changed as a result..."
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"The Israel-Poland tour was without a doubt the most emotional and important 2 weeks of my life. The 2 weeks were an absolute roller coaster of emotions. The jubilation to be in Israel, some of us for the first time; the grief felt while standing in a gas chamber, the pride felt while carrying an Israeli flag through Auschwitz and the smell of a barrack filled with thousands of shoes is unexplainable..."
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"Ghettos, camps, SS, Gestapo, 6 million, death, holocaust. These are the words that I associated with Poland and the holocaust – before I left Durban. An indescribable world, one beyond imagination..."
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"Two weeks ago I set off on the most incredible journey of my life! I was eager to participate and open-minded but in retrospect I really did not have a clue what was about to happen to me on the P2K Shoa Tour 2003..."
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